| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: heavenly glory rising again from the dead, and in immortality
ascending into heaven); and believe that he shall come again,
with glory, to judge quick and dead, and by the words which
himself knoweth, of that diviner body, and to reward every man by
his own just standards. For the dead shall rise again, and they
that are in their graves shall awake: and they that have kept the
commandments of Christ, and have departed this life in the true
faith shall inherit eternal life, and they, that have died in
their sins, and have turned aside from the right faith, shall go
away into eternal punishment. Believe not that there is any true
being or kingdom of evil, nor suppose that it is without
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Return of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: sought it was ivory, but usually it was both. Our men were
killed and our women driven away like sheep. We fought
against them for many years, but our arrows and spears
could not prevail against the sticks which spit fire
and lead and death to many times the distance that our
mightiest warrior could place an arrow. At last, when my
father was a young man, the Arabs came again, but our
warriors saw them a long way off, and Chowambi, who was
chief then, told his people to gather up their belongings
and come away with him--that he would lead them far to
the south until they found a spot to which the Arab raiders
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 32: 16 And the tables were the work of God, and the writing was the writing of God, graven upon the tables.
Exodus 32: 17 And when Joshua heard the noise of the people as they shouted, he said unto Moses: 'There is a noise of war in the camp.'
Exodus 32: 18 And he said: 'It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, neither is it the voice of them that cry for being overcome, but the noise of them that sing do I hear.'
Exodus 32: 19 And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf and the dancing; and Moses' anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and broke them beneath the mount.
Exodus 32: 20 And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it with fire, and ground it to powder, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Exodus 32: 21 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought a great sin upon them?'
Exodus 32: 22 And Aaron said: 'Let not the anger of my lord wax hot; thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.
Exodus 32: 23 So they said unto me: Make us a god, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.
Exodus 32: 24 And I said unto them: Whosoever hath any gold, let them break it off; so they gave it me; and I cast it into the fire, and there came out this calf.'
Exodus 32: 25 And when Moses saw that the people were broken loose--for Aaron had let them loose for a derision among their enemies--
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