| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Symposium by Plato: which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.')
I will now initiate you, she said, into the greater mysteries; for he who
would proceed in due course should love first one fair form, and then many,
and learn the connexion of them; and from beautiful bodies he should
proceed to beautiful minds, and the beauty of laws and institutions, until
he perceives that all beauty is of one kindred; and from institutions he
should go on to the sciences, until at last the vision is revealed to him
of a single science of universal beauty, and then he will behold the
everlasting nature which is the cause of all, and will be near the end. In
the contemplation of that supreme being of love he will be purified of
earthly leaven, and will behold beauty, not with the bodily eye, but with
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Merry Men by Robert Louis Stevenson: it is, after all, only the bark of a tree which we might gather for
ourselves if we lived in the locality. - What a world is this!
Though a professed atheist, I delight to bear my testimony to the
world. Look at the gratuitous remedies and pleasures that surround
our path! The river runs by the garden end, our bath, our
fishpond, our natural system of drainage. There is a well in the
court which sends up sparkling water from the earth's very heart,
clean, cool, and, with a little wine, most wholesome. The district
is notorious for its salubrity; rheumatism is the only prevalent
complaint, and I myself have never had a touch of it. I tell you -
and my opinion is based upon the coldest, clearest processes of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: Thorfinnssen I resolved to take steps toward investigation. The
fifth aeroplane, which we had left at the McMurdo Sound supply
cache with Sherman and two sailors, was in good shape and ready
for instant use, and it seemed that the very emergency for which
it had been saved was now upon us. I got Sherman by wireless and
ordered him to join me with the plane and the two sailors at the
southern base as quickly as possible, the air conditions being
apparently highly favorable. We then talked over the personnel
of the coming investigation party, and decided that we would include
all hands, together with the sledge and dogs which I had kept
with me. Even so great a load would not be too much for one of
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