| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: Expect him here: when he shall come and find
Our paragon to all reports thus blasted,
He will repent the breadth of his great voyage;
Blame both my lord and me, that we have taken
No care to your best courses. Go, I pray you,
Walk, and be cheerful once again; reserve
That excellent complexion, which did steal
The eyes of young and old. Care not for me;
I can go home alone.
MARINA.
Well, I will go;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: and in the Son, and in the Holy Ghost, the holy and life-giving
Trinity, glorified in three persons and one Godhead, different
indeed in persons and personal properties, but united in
substance; acknowledging one God unbegotten, the Father; and one
begotten Lord, the Son, light of light, very God of very God,
begotten before all worlds; for of the good Father is begotten
the good Son, and of the unbegotten light shone forth the
everlasting light; and from very life came forth the life-giving
spring, and from original might shone forth the might of the Son,
who is the brightness of his glory and the Word in personality,
who was in the beginning with God, and God without beginning and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Iliad by Homer: their manes and chests fell in streams on to the ground.
Forthwith he sprang from his goodly chariot, and leaned his whip
against his horses' yoke; brave Sthenelus now lost no time, but
at once brought on the prize, and gave the woman and the
ear-handled cauldron to his comrades to take away. Then he
unyoked the horses.
Next after him came in Antilochus of the race of Neleus, who had
passed Menelaus by a trick and not by the fleetness of his
horses; but even so Menelaus came in as close behind him as the
wheel is to the horse that draws both the chariot and its master.
The end hairs of a horse's tail touch the tyre of the wheel, and
The Iliad |
