| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: essence itself from the soul? Or, how could there have been motion in the
chaos when as yet time was not? Or, how did chaos come into existence, if
not by the will of the Creator? Or, how could there have been a time when
the world was not, if time was not? Or, how could the Creator have taken
portions of an indivisible same? Or, how could space or anything else have
been eternal when time is only created? Or, how could the surfaces of
geometrical figures have formed solids? We must reply again that we cannot
follow Plato in all his inconsistencies, but that the gaps of thought are
probably more apparent to us than to him. He would, perhaps, have said
that 'the first things are known only to God and to him of men whom God
loves.' How often have the gaps in Theology been concealed from the eye of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare: to speak of; therefore I will not speak what I know.
KING.
Thou hast spoken all already, unless thou canst say they are
married: but thou art too fine in thy evidence; therefore stand
aside.--This ring, you say, was yours?
DIANA.
Ay, my good lord.
KING.
Where did you buy it? or who gave it you?
DIANA.
It was not given me, nor I did not buy it.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: be seen the bulging walls of queer windowless dwellings, and the
low railings guarding travelled highroads. No ship of men had
ever come so near the place, or at least, had never come so near
and departed again; but Carter and the ghouls were void of fear
and kept inflexibly on, rounding the eastern face of the rock
and seeking the wharves which the rescued trio described as being
on the southern side within a harbour formed of steep headlands.
The headlands were prolongations of the island proper, and came
so closely together that only one ship at a time might pass between
them. There seemed to be no watchers on the outside, so the galley
was steered boldly through the flume-like strait and into the
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