| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: one their authority; but it is common of the Son and of the Holy
Ghost that they are of the Father; and it is proper of the Father
that he is unbegotten, and of the Son that he is begotten, and of
the Holy Ghost that he proceedeth.
"This therefore be thy belief; but seek not to understand the
manner of the generation or procession, for it is
incomprehensible. In uprightness of heart and without question
accept the truth that the Father, and the Son, and the Holy
Ghost, are in all points one except in the being unbegotten, and
begotten, and proceeding; and that the only begotten Son, the
Word of God, and God, for our salvation came down upon earth, by
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Arizona Nights by Stewart Edward White: together. We had all been Texas Rangers, but when the war broke
out we were out of a job. We none of us cared much for the
Johnny Rebs, and still less for the Yanks, so we struck overland
for the West, with the idea of hitting the California diggings.
Well, we got switched off one way and another. When we got down
to about where Douglas is now, we found that the Mexican
Government was offering a bounty for Apache scalps. That looked
pretty good to us, for Injin chasing was our job, so we started
in to collect. Did pretty well, too, for about three months, and
then the Injins began to get too scarce, or too plenty in
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Persuasion by Jane Austen: He truly wants to marry you. His present attentions to your family
are very sincere: quite from the heart. I will give you my authority:
his friend Colonel Wallis."
"Colonel Wallis! you are acquainted with him?"
"No. It does not come to me in quite so direct a line as that;
it takes a bend or two, but nothing of consequence. The stream
is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings
is easily moved away. Mr Elliot talks unreservedly to Colonel Wallis
of his views on you, which said Colonel Wallis, I imagine to be,
in himself, a sensible, careful, discerning sort of character;
but Colonel Wallis has a very pretty silly wife, to whom
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