| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: and so did all the trees that were then in the world. And some
say, by their prophecies, that a lord, a prince of the west side of
the world, shall win the Land of Promission that is the Holy Land
with help of Christian men, and he shall do sing a mass under that
dry tree; and then the tree shall wax green and bear both fruit and
leaves, and through that miracle many Saracens and Jews shall be
turned to Christian faith: and, therefore, they do great worship
thereto, and keep it full busily. And, albeit so, that it be dry,
natheles yet he beareth great virtue, for certainly he that hath a
little thereof upon him, it healeth him of the falling evil, and
his horse shall not be a-foundered: and many other virtues it
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: air that endure but for a moment and return no more. Other
variations are more lasting, as when, for instance, heavy and wet
snow has fallen through some windless hours, and the thin, spiry,
mountain pine trees stand each stock-still and loaded with a shining
burthen. You may drive through a forest so disguised, the tongue-
tied torrent struggling silently in the cleft of the ravine, and all
still except the jingle of the sleigh bells, and you shall fancy
yourself in some untrodden northern territory - Lapland, Labrador, or
Alaska.
Or, possibly, you arise very early in the morning; totter down stairs
in a state of somnambulism; take the simulacrum of a meal by the
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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: there were, did not exactly realise what they were writing; that
they did not mean to say that a child was not to confess its sins to
God direct; that it was not to confess its sins, at the age of six,
to its mother, or to its father, but was only to have recourse to
the priest. But the words, to say the least of them, are rash.
Then comes the very obvious question:
"'Do you know why? It is because God, when he was on earth, gave to
his priests, and to them alone, the Divine Power of forgiving men
their sins. It was to priests alone that Jesus said: "Receive ye
the Holy Ghost." . . . Those who will not confess will not be
cured. Sin is a terrible sickness, and casts souls into hell.'
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