| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: and was exiled from Athens. Sparta gave him land
and property in Scillus, where he lived for many
years before having to move once more, to settle
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
Anabasis |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde: beyond all living things. When she acts, you will forget everything.
These common rough people, with their coarse faces and brutal gestures,
become quite different when she is on the stage. They sit silently
and watch her. They weep and laugh as she wills them to do.
She makes them as responsive as a violin. She spiritualizes them,
and one feels that they are of the same flesh and blood as one's self."
"The same flesh and blood as one's self! Oh, I hope not!"
exclaimed Lord Henry, who was scanning the occupants of the gallery
through his opera-glass.
"Don't pay any attention to him, Dorian," said the painter.
"I understand what you mean, and I believe in this girl.
The Picture of Dorian Gray |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: over-persuade him. Then did the king take that Barachias, of
whom we have already spoken, saying, "This is he, brethren, whom
I appoint to be your king." And though Barachias stoutly
resisted, yet he established him, unwilling and reluctant, upon
the royal throne, and placed the diadem on his head, and gave the
kingly ring into his hand. Then he stood facing the cast and
made prayer for King Barachias, that his faith toward God might
be preserved unwavering, and that he might keep without faltering
the path of Christ's commandments. Therewith he prayed for the
clergy and all the flock, asking of God succour for them and
salvation, and all that might fitly be asked for their welfare.
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