| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: in Corinth. He died in 354 B.C.
The Anabasis is his story of the march to Persia
to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: hauled in the skiff and got overboard, where he held on, waiting
for Dick.
"Well, Jack, keep me a good watch," said the young commander,
preparing to follow his subordinate. "Ye will do right well."
"Why," returned Jack, "I shall do excellent well indeed, so long as
we lie here; but once we put the nose of this poor ship outside the
harbour - See, there she trembles! Nay, the poor shrew heard the
words, and the heart misgave her in her oak-tree ribs. But look,
Master Dick! how black the weather gathers!"
The darkness ahead was, indeed, astonishing. Great billows heaved
up out of the blackness, one after another; and one after another
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power
mightily.
NAH 2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the
excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred
their vine branches.
NAH 2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are
in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his
preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
NAH 2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one
against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they
shall run like the lightnings.
King James Bible |
