| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: the prop of the tackle for raising the second beam. The whole
difficulty of this operation was in the raising and propping
of the first beam, which became a convenient derrick for
raising the second, these again a pair of shears for lifting
the third, and the shears a triangle for raising the fourth.
Having thus got four of the six principal beams set on end, it
required a considerable degree of trouble to get their upper
ends to fit. Here they formed the apex of a cone, and were
all together mortised into a large piece of beechwood, and
secured, for the present, with ropes, in a temporary manner.
During the short period of one tide all that could further be
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rinkitink In Oz by L. Frank Baum: uneasily to the boy. "Without doubt they intend to
capture us and make us their slaves."
"Do not fear, sir," answered Inga, in a calm voice.
"Stay quietly in the boat with Bilbil until I have
spoken with these men."
He stopped the boat a dozen feet from the shore, and
standing up in his place made a grave bow to the
multitude confronting him. Said the big Captain Buzzub
in a gruff voice:
"Well, little one, who may you be? And how dare you
come, uninvited and all alone, to the Island of Regos?"
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: explanation of all the facts. That subconscious incubation
explains a great number of them, there can be no doubt.
And thus I return to our own specific subject of instantaneous
conversions. You remember the cases of Alline, Bradley,
Brainerd, and the graduate of Oxford converted at three in the
afternoon. Similar occurrences abound, some with and some
without luminous visions, all with a sense of astonished
happiness, and of being wrought on by a higher control. If,
abstracting altogether from the question of their value for the
future spiritual life of the individual, we take them on their
psychological side exclusively, so many peculiarities in them
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