| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: and the creeds, scientific and religious, are on the verge of
collapsing, but in such a way as to leave the sense and the
perception of Unity--the real content of the whole
process--not only undestroyed, but immensely heightened
and illuminated. Meanwhile the taboos--of which there
remain some still, both religious and scientific--
have been gradually breaking up and merging themselves into a
reasonable and humane order of life and philosophy.
I have said that out of this World-religion Christianity
really sprang. It is evident that the time has arrived when
it must either acknowledge its source and frankly endeavor
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Crito by Plato: physician or trainer, whoever he may be?
CRITO: Of one man only.
SOCRATES: And he ought to fear the censure and welcome the praise of that
one only, and not of the many?
CRITO: Clearly so.
SOCRATES: And he ought to act and train, and eat and drink in the way
which seems good to his single master who has understanding, rather than
according to the opinion of all other men put together?
CRITO: True.
SOCRATES: And if he disobeys and disregards the opinion and approval of
the one, and regards the opinion of the many who have no understanding,
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart: anxious, and there were deep circles I had not seen before, under
her eyes. And it was Bella who finally threw herself into the
breach--the family breach.
"It is all my fault, Miss Caruthers," she said, stepping between
Aunt Selina and myself. "I have been a blind and wicked woman,
and I have almost wrecked two lives."
Two! What of mine?
"You see," she struggled on, against the glint in Aunt Selina's
eyes. "I--I did not realize how much I cared, until it was too
late. I did so many things that were cruel and wrong--oh, Jim,
Jim!"
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