| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: times, so that we may know what we ourselves have escaped. In the
fifteenth century there was established in Europe the cult of a
three-headed god, whose priests had won lordship over a
continent. They were enormously wealthy, and unthinkably corrupt;
they sold to the rich the license to commit every possible crime,
and they held the poor in ignorance and degradation. Among the
comparatively intelligent and freedom-loving people of Bohemia
there arose a great reformer, John Huss, himself a priest,
protesting against the corruptions of his order. They trapped him
into their power by means of a "safe-conduct"--which they
repudiated because no promise to a heretic could have validity.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson: red-coats; that arms were being found, and poor folk brought in
trouble daily; and that James and some of his servants were
already clapped in prison at Fort William, under strong suspicion
of complicity. It seemed it was noised on all sides that Alan
Breck had fired the shot; and there was a bill issued for both
him and me, with one hundred pounds reward.
This was all as bad as could be; and the little note the bouman
had carried us from Mrs. Stewart was of a miserable sadness. In
it she besought Alan not to let himself be captured, assuring
him, if he fell in the hands of the troops, both he and James
were no better than dead men. The money she had sent was all
Kidnapped |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be
established.
ISA 7:10 Moreover the LORD spake again unto Ahaz, saying,
ISA 7:11 Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the
depth, or in the height above.
ISA 7:12 But Ahaz said, I will not ask, neither will I tempt the LORD.
ISA 7:13 And he said, Hear ye now, O house of David; Is it a small
thing for you to weary men, but will ye weary my God also?
ISA 7:14 Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a
virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
ISA 7:15 Butter and honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the
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