| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: consilio deorum immortalium quae pars civitatis Helvetiae insignem
calamitatem populo Romano intulerat, ea princeps poenam persolvit. Qua in
re Caesar non solum publicas, sed etiam privatas iniurias ultus est, quod
eius soceri L. Pisonis avum, L. Pisonem legatum, Tigurini eodem proelio
quo Cassium interfecerant.
Hoc proelio facto, reliquas copias Helvetiorum ut consequi posset,
pontem in Arari faciendum curat atque ita exercitum traducit. Helvetii
repentino eius adventu commoti cum id quod ipsi diebus XX aegerrime
confecerant, ut flumen transirent, illum uno die fecisse intellegerent,
legatos ad eum mittunt; cuius legationis Divico princeps fuit, qui bello
Cassiano dux Helvetiorum fuerat. Is ita cum Caesare egit: si pacem
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: but understand it. And this feeling of being surrounded with
truths which I cannot grasp amounts to indescribable awe
sometimes. . . . Have you not felt that your real soul was
imperceptible to your mental vision, except in a few hallowed
moments?"[230]
[230] Charles Kingsley's Life, i. 55, quoted by Inge: Christian
Mysticism, London, 1899, p. 341.
A much more extreme state of mystical consciousness is described
by J. A. Symonds; and probably more persons than we suspect could
give parallels to it from their own experience.
"Suddenly," writes Symonds, "at church, or in company, or when I
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx: proletariat organised as the ruling class; and to increase the
total of productive forces as rapidly as possible.
Of course, in the beginning, this cannot be effected except by
means of despotic inroads on the rights of property, and on the
conditions of bourgeois production; by means of measures,
therefore,
which appear economically insufficient and untenable, but which,
in the course of the movement, outstrip themselves, necessitate
further inroads upon the old social order, and are unavoidable
as a means of entirely revolutionising the mode of production.
These measures will of course be different in different
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