| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 28. It is certain that when the penny jingles into the
money-box, gain and avarice can be increased, but the result
of the intercession of the Church is in the power of God
alone.
29. Who knows whether all the souls in purgatory wish to be
bought out of it, as in the legend of Sts. Severinus and
Paschal.
30. No one is sure that his own contrition is sincere; much
less that he has attained full remission.
31. Rare as is the man that is truly penitent, so rare is also
the man who truly buys indulgences, i.e., such men are most
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: each person, severally, is God. As the Father is, so also is the
Son, and as the Son, so also the Holy Ghost. And there is one
God in three, one nature, one kingdom, one power, one glory, one
substance, distinct in persons, and so only distinct. One is the
Father, whose property it is not to have been begotten; one is
the only-begotten Son, and his property it is to have been
begotten; and one is the Holy Ghost, and his property it is that
he proceedeth. Thus illuminated by that light, which is the
Father, with that light, which is the Son, in that light, which
is the Holy Ghost, we glorify one Godhead in three persons. And
he is one very and only God, known in the Trinity: for of him and
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Red Inn by Honore de Balzac: even feel the moxas they used formerly to apply to relieve it; but
Monsieur Brousson, who is now his physician, has forbidden that
remedy, declaring that the trouble is a nervous affection, an
inflammation of the nerves, for which leeches should be applied to the
neck, and opium to the head. As a result, the attacks are not so
frequent; they appear now only about once a year, and always late in
the autumn. When he recovers, Taillefer says repeatedly that he would
far rather die than endure such torture."
"Then he must suffer terribly!" said a broker, considered a wit, who
was present.
"Oh," continued the mistress of the house, "last year he nearly died
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