| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: twain were brought into being by the Creator to be fellow-workers
with nature; and such they still are to those `who walk not after
the flesh but after the Spirit.' But in you who are altogether
carnal, having nothing of the Spirit, they are adversaries, and
play the part of enemies and foemen. For Desire, working in you,
stirreth up pleasure, but, when made of none effect, Anger. To-
day therefore let these be banished from thee, and let Wisdom and
Righteousness sit to hear and judge that which we say. For if
thou put Anger and Desire out of court, and in their room bring
in Wisdom and Righteousness, I will truthfully tell thee all."
Then spake the king, "Lo I yield to thy request, and will banish
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Desert Gold by Zane Grey: "No, he's not. A hard knock on the skull and a scalp wound, "
replied Dick. "Here, Jim, let me help you over this place."
Step by step Gale got the two injured men down the uneven declivity
and then across the narrow lava bridge over the fissure. Here he
bade them rest while he went along the trail on that side to search
for Laddy. Gale found the ranger stretched out, face downward,
a reddened hand clutching a gun. Gale thought he was dead. Upon
examination, however, it was found that Ladd still lived, though he
had many wounds. Gale lifted him and carried him back to the
others.
"He's alive, but that's all," said Dick, as he laid the ranger down.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Melmoth Reconciled by Honore de Balzac: he forthwith thought of nothing else. If it were allowable to compare
such great things with social follies, Castanier's position was not
unlike that of a banker who, finding that his all-powerful millions
cannot obtain for him an entrance into the society of the noblesse,
must set his heart upon entering that circle, and all the social
privileges that he has already acquired are as nothing in his eyes
from the moment when he discovers that a single one is lacking.
Here is a man more powerful than all the kings on earth put together;
a man who, like Satan, could wrestle with God Himself; leaning against
one of the pillars in the Church of Saint-Sulpice, weighed down by
the feelings and thoughts that oppressed him, and absorbed in the
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