| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: congenial Israelites to the most terrific pogroms. This divine
"frightfulness" is of course the natural human dislike and distrust
for queer practices or for too sunny a carelessness, a dislike
reinforced by the latent fierceness of the ape in us, liberating the
latent fierceness of the ape in us, giving it an excuse and pressing
permission upon it, handing the thing hated and feared over to its
secular arm. . . .
* It is not so generally understood as it should be among English
and American readers that a very large proportion of early
Christians before the creeds established and regularised the
doctrine of the Trinity, denied absolutely that Jehovah was God;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 4: 26 (5:6) And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.
1_Kings 4: 27 (5:7) And those officers provided victual for king Solomon, and for all that came unto king Solomon's table, every man in his month; they let nothing be lacking.
1_Kings 4: 28 (5:8) Barley also and straw for the horses and swift steeds brought they unto the place where it should be, every man according to his charge.
1_Kings 4: 29 (5:9) And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, and largeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore.
1_Kings 4: 30 (5:10) And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1_Kings 4: 31 (5:11) For he was wiser than all men: than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol; and his fame was in all the nations round about.
1_Kings 4: 32 (5:12) And he spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were a thousand and five.
1_Kings 4: 33 (5:13) And he spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall; he spoke also of beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
1_Kings 4: 34 (5:14) And there came of all peoples to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1_Kings 5: 1 (5:15) And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father; for Hiram was ever a lover of David.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Bureaucracy by Honore de Balzac: peerage is the only thing I really care for. I want you fully to
understand that I am not seeking office or anything else that would
cause me to stand in your way; I am simply aiming for the peerage,
which will enable me to marry a banker's daughter with an income of a
couple of hundred thousand francs. And so, allow me to render you a
few signal services which will make the King feel that I have saved
the throne. I have long said that Liberalism would never offer us a
pitched battle. It has given up conspiracies, Carbonaroism, and
revolts with weapons; it is now sapping and mining, and the day is
coming when it will be able to say, 'Out of that and let me in!' Do
you think I have been courting Rabourdin's wife for my own pleasure?
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