| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Joshua 15: 16 And Caleb said: 'He that smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.'
Joshua 15: 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it; and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Joshua 15: 18 And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she persuaded him to ask of her father a field; and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her: 'What wouldest thou?'
Joshua 15: 19 And she said: 'Give me a blessing; for that thou hast set me in the Southland, give me therefore springs of water.' And he gave her the Upper Springs and the Nether Springs.
Joshua 15: 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.
Joshua 15: 21 And the cities at the uttermost part of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur;
Joshua 15: 22 and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah;
Joshua 15: 23 and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan;
Joshua 15: 24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;
Joshua 15: 25 and Hazor, and Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron--the same is Hazor;
Joshua 15: 26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: dialogue.
The paradoxes of Parmenides seem trivial to us, because the words to which
they relate have become trivial; their true nature as abstract terms is
perfectly understood by us, and we are inclined to regard the treatment of
them in Plato as a mere straw-splitting, or legerdemain of words. Yet
there was a power in them which fascinated the Neoplatonists for centuries
afterwards. Something that they found in them, or brought to them--some
echo or anticipation of a great truth or error, exercised a wonderful
influence over their minds. To do the Parmenides justice, we should
imagine similar aporiai raised on themes as sacred to us, as the notions of
One or Being were to an ancient Eleatic. 'If God is, what follows? If God
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Charmides by Plato: Who is he, I said; and who is his father?
Charmides, he replied, is his name; he is my cousin, and the son of my
uncle Glaucon: I rather think that you know him too, although he was not
grown up at the time of your departure.
Certainly, I know him, I said, for he was remarkable even then when he was
still a child, and I should imagine that by this time he must be almost a
young man.
You will see, he said, in a moment what progress he has made and what he is
like. He had scarcely said the word, when Charmides entered.
Now you know, my friend, that I cannot measure anything, and of the
beautiful, I am simply such a measure as a white line is of chalk; for
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