| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Helvetii omnium rerum inopia adducti legatos de deditione ad eum
miserunt. Qui cum eum in itinere convenissent seque ad pedes proiecissent
suppliciterque locuti flentes pacem petissent, atque eos in eo loco quo
tum essent suum adventum expectare iussisset, paruerunt. Eo postquam
Caesar pervenit, obsides, arma, servos qui ad eos perfugissent, poposcit.
Dum ea conquiruntur et conferuntur, [nocte intermissa] circiter hominum
milia VI eius pagi qui Verbigenus appellatur, sive timore perterriti, ne
armis traditis supplicio adficerentur, sive spe salutis inducti, quod in
tanta multitudine dediticiorum suam fugam aut occultari aut omnino
ignorari posse existimarent, prima nocte e castris Helvetiorum egressi ad
Rhenum finesque Germanorum contenderunt.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Exiles by Honore de Balzac: the thrill of battle and the exultation of victory.
"To Florence! To Florence! Ah, my Florence!" cried Dante Alighieri,
drawing himself up, and gazing into the distance. In fancy he saw
Italy; he was gigantic.
"But I--when shall I be in Heaven?" said Godefroid, kneeling on one
knee before the immortal poet, like an angel before the sanctuary.
"Come to Florence," said Dante in compassionate tones. "Come! when you
see its lovely landscape from the heights of Fiesole you will fancy
yourself in Paradise."
The soldier smiled. For the first time, perhaps for the only time in
his life, Dante's gloomy and solemn features wore a look of joy; his
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: were under the greatest surprise at hearing us mention the Virgin
Mary with the respect which is due to her, and told us that we could
not be entirely barbarians since we were acquainted with the mother
of God. It plainly appears that prepossessions so strong, which
receive more strength from the ignorance of the people, have very
little tendency to dispose them to a reunion with the Catholic
Church.
They have some opinions peculiar to themselves about purgatory, the
creation of souls, and some of our mysteries. They repeat baptism
every year, they retain the practice of circumcision, they observe
the Sabbath, they abstain from all those sorts of flesh which are
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