| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: two flashing objects that lay side by side but with nearly the
whole width of the vault between them.
I pointed at them to Bickley with my finger, for really I could
not speak.
"Coffins, by Jove!" he whispered. "Glass or crystal coffins and
people in them. Come on!"
A few seconds later we were crawling into that vault while
Bastin, still nursing the head of Oro as though it were a baby,
stood confused outside muttering something about desecrating
hallowed graves.
Just as we reached the interior, owing to the heightening of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A treatise on Good Works by Dr. Martin Luther: the master-workman in this work also, so that without it no one
has courage to do this work: so entirely are all works comprised
in faith, as has now been often said. Therefore, apart from faith
all works are dead, however good the form and name they bear. For
as no one does the work of this Commandment except he be firm and
fearless in the confidence of divine favor; so also he does no
work of any other Commandment without the same faith: thus every
one may easily by this Commandment test and weigh himself whether
he be a Christian and truly believe in Christ, and thus whether
he is doing good works or no. Now we see how the Almighty God has
not only set our Lord Jesus Christ before us that we should
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Under the Red Robe by Stanley Weyman: But that is the way of soldiers. They are always ready for the
enemy, with drums beating and flags flying--at ten o'clock in the
morning. But he does not always come at that hour.
I waited a little, and then I groped my way to the door and
knocked on it with the hilt of my sword. The dogs began to bark
at the back, and the chorus of a drinking-song, which came
fitfully from the east wing, ceased altogether. An inner door
opened, and an angry voice, apparently an officer's, began to
rate someone for not coming. Another moment, and a clamour of
voices and footsteps seemed to pour into the hall, and fill it.
I heard the bar jerked away, the door was flung open, and in a
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