| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: ground, near the edge of the island raft. His heart was thumping
heavily and queerly; its beating reminded him of the drum taps. He
gazed languidly at the rippling water, and it seemed to him as if he
could see right through it ... away, away down ... to a strange
fire....
The water disappeared. The two suns were extinguished. The island
was transformed into a cloud, and Maskull - alone on it - was
floating through the atmosphere.. .. Down below, it was all fire -
the fire of Muspel. The light mounted higher and higher, until it
filled the whole world....
He floated toward an immense perpendicular cliff of black rock,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: law having received it of kings and emperors for the civil
administration of what is theirs. This, however, is another
office than the ministry of the Gospel.
When, therefore, the question is concerning the jurisdiction
of bishops, civil authority must be distinguished from
ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Again, according to the Gospel
or, as they say, by divine right, there belongs to the bishops
as bishops, that is, to those to whom has been committed the
ministry of the Word and the Sacraments, no jurisdiction
except to forgive sins, to judge doctrine, to reject doctrines
contrary to the Gospel, and to exclude from the communion of
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Protagoras by Plato: that they rule the world by wisdom, like the Sophists of whom Protagoras
was speaking, and not by valour of arms; considering that if the reason of
their superiority were disclosed, all men would be practising their wisdom.
And this secret of theirs has never been discovered by the imitators of
Lacedaemonian fashions in other cities, who go about with their ears
bruised in imitation of them, and have the caestus bound on their arms, and
are always in training, and wear short cloaks; for they imagine that these
are the practices which have enabled the Lacedaemonians to conquer the
other Hellenes. Now when the Lacedaemonians want to unbend and hold free
conversation with their wise men, and are no longer satisfied with mere
secret intercourse, they drive out all these laconizers, and any other
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