| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: Surely God had miraculously saved her this night
from the wiles of the Devil! No matter what this
eloquent discourse had meant to others, it had renewed
her faith in the old-fashioned woman and the old-
fashioned ways of the old-fashioned home. Her vision
was once more clear. She was glad Jane Anderson had
come to put her to the test. She had been tried in the
fires of hell and came forth unscorched.
She stood beside her window dreaming again of the
home she would build when her Knight should stand
before her revealed in beauty no words could describe.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Octopus by Frank Norris: simplicity that was not only in the calm regularity of her face,
with its statuesque evenness of contour, its broad surface of
cheek and forehead and the masses of her straight smooth hair,
but was apparent as well in the long line of her carriage, from
her foot to her waist and the single deep swell from her waist to
her shoulder. Almost unconsciously she dressed in harmony with
this note of simplicity, and on this occasion wore a skirt of
plain dark blue calico and a white shirt waist crisp from the
laundry.
And yet, for all the dignity of this rigourous simplicity, there
were about Hilma small contradictory suggestions of feminine
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: this apparent compromise between our faith and the current religion.
Firstly, we do not presume to theorise about the nature of the
veiled being nor about that being's relations to God and to Life.
We do not recognise any consistent sympathetic possibilities between
these outer beings and our God. Our God is, we feel, like
Prometheus, a rebel. He is unfilial. And the accepted figure of
Jesus, instinct with meek submission, is not in the tone of our
worship. It is not by suffering that God conquers death, but by
fighting. Incidentally our God dies a million deaths, but the thing
that matters is not the deaths but the immortality. It may be he
cannot escape in this person or that person being nailed to a cross
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