| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: so well that he returns to it after he had warned them against their twofold
danger. "You have not only received the Spirit by the preaching of the
Gospel, but by the same Gospel you were enabled to do things." "What things?"
we ask. Miracles. At least the Galatians had manifested the striking fruits
of faith which true disciples of the Gospel manifested in those days. On one
occasion the Apostle wrote: "The kingdom of God is not in word, but in
power." This "power" revealed itself not only in readiness of speech, but in
demonstrations of the supernatural ability of the Holy Spirit.
When the Gospel is preached unto faith, hope, love, and patience, God gives
His wonder-working Spirit. Paul reminds the Galatians of this. "God had not
only brought you to faith by my preaching. He had also sanctified you to
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: When, armed with lances, ye are sporting, Maruts, and rush
along
together like the waters.
4 They, like young suitors, sons of wealthy houses, have with
their
golden natures decked their bodies.
Strong on their cars, the lordly Ones, for glory, have set
their
splendours on their forms for ever.
5 None being eldest, none among them youngest, as brothers
they have
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Essays & Lectures by Oscar Wilde: weary of cities I would ask him to come to your fields and meadows
to watch the reaper with his sickle and the cattle-driver with
lifted lasso. For if a man cannot find the noblest motives for his
art in such simple daily things as a woman drawing water from the
well or a man leaning with his scythe, he will not find them
anywhere at all. Gods and goddesses the Greek carved because he
loved them; saint and king the Goth because he believed in them.
But you, you do not care much for Greek gods and goddesses, and you
are perfectly and entirely right; and you do not think much of
kings either, and you are quite right. But what you do love are
your own men and women, your own flowers and fields, your own hills
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