| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Ion by Plato: These are the sort of things which I should say that the prophet ought to
consider and determine.
ION: And you are quite right, Socrates, in saying so.
SOCRATES: Yes, Ion, and you are right also. And as I have selected from
the Iliad and Odyssee for you passages which describe the office of the
prophet and the physician and the fisherman, do you, who know Homer so much
better than I do, Ion, select for me passages which relate to the rhapsode
and the rhapsode's art, and which the rhapsode ought to examine and judge
of better than other men.
ION: All passages, I should say, Socrates.
SOCRATES: Not all, Ion, surely. Have you already forgotten what you were
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: his people, that they may dwell in Jerusalem for ever:
CH1 23:26 And also unto the Levites; they shall no more carry the
tabernacle, nor any vessels of it for the service thereof.
CH1 23:27 For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from
twenty years old and above:
CH1 23:28 Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the
service of the house of the LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers,
and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of
the house of God;
CH1 23:29 Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat
offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: Install your highness in your proper right:
And, herewithall, I render to your hands
These prisoners, chief occasion of our strife.
KING EDWARD.
So, John of France, I see you keep your word:
You promised to be sooner with our self
Than we did think for, and tis so in deed:
But, had you done at first as now you do,
How many civil towns had stood untouched,
That now are turned to ragged heaps of stones!
How many people's lives mightst thou have saved,
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