| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Land that Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: He was talking loudly and gesticulating wildly. I was close enough
to hear his words, which were similar to the language of Ahm, though
much fuller, for there were many words I could not understand.
However I caught the gist of what he was saying--which in effect
was that he had found and captured this Galu, that she was his
and that he defied anyone to question his right of possession.
It appeared to me, as I afterward learned was the fact, that I was
witnessing the most primitive of marriage ceremonies. The assembled
members of the tribe looked on and listened in a sort of dull and
perfunctory apathy, for the speaker was by far the mightiest of the clan.
There seemed no one to dispute his claims when he said, or rather
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: Ghost, are in all points one except in the being unbegotten, and
begotten, and proceeding; and that the only begotten Son, the
Word of God, and God, for our salvation came down upon earth, by
the good pleasure of the Father, and, by the operation of the
Holy Ghost, was conceived without seed in the womb of Mary the
holy Virgin and Mother of God, by the Holy Ghost, and was born of
her without defilement and was made perfect man and that he is
perfect God and perfect man, being of two natures, the Godhead
and the manhood, and in two natures, endowed with reason, will,
activity, and free will, and in all points perfect according to
the proper rule and law in either case, that is in the Godhead
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: of Maui, who, it is believed, has been selling poisonous scorpions
to Chinese in Honolulu anxious to get rid of their children.
"Infanticide, by scorpion and otherwise, among the Chinese,
has increased so terribly that the authorities have started
a searching inquiry, which has led to the hunt for the scorpion
dealer of Maui.
"Practically all the babies that die mysteriously are unwanted girls,
and in nearly every case the parents promptly ascribe the death to the bite
of a scorpion, and are ready to produce some more or less poisonous insect
in support of the statement.
"The authorities have no doubt that infanticide by scorpion
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