| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: may really take her to his arms and translate her to the
heights of heaven. Can we not imagine how when these
things were represented in the Mysteries the world flocked
to see them, and the poets indeed said, "Happy are
they that see and seeing can understand?" Can we not
understand how it was that the Amphictyonic decree of the
second century B.C. spoke of these same Mysteries as enforcing
the lesson that "the greatest of human blessings
is fellowship and mutual trust"?
XV. THE ANCIENT MYSTERIES
Thus we come to a thing which we must not pass over,
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Europeans by Henry James: to allow that. That is not the way I shall meet them first."
And in answer to his interrogative glance she went on.
"You will go and examine, and report. You will come
back and tell me who they are and what they are;
their number, gender, their respective ages--all about them.
Be sure you observe everything; be ready to describe
to me the locality, the accessories--how shall I say it?--
the mise en scene. Then, at my own time, at my own hour,
under circumstances of my own choosing, I will go to them.
I will present myself--I will appear before them!" said the Baroness,
this time phrasing her idea with a certain frankness.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: to aid Cyrus, who enlisted Greek help to try and
take the throne from Artaxerxes, and the ensuing
return of the Greeks, in which Xenophon played a
leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
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