| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: symphony, this alone is worth getting up for.
Half an hour's heat; and the magic jewels disappear with the dew.
Now is the moment to inspect the webs. Here is one spreading its
sheet over a large cluster of rock-roses; it is the size of a
handkerchief. A profusion of guy-ropes, attached to any chance
projection, moor it to the brushwood. There is not a twig but
supplies a contact-point. Entwined on every side, surrounded and
surmounted, the bush disappears from view, veiled in white muslin.
The web is flat at the edges, as far as the unevenness of the
support permits, and gradually hollows into a crater, not unlike
the bell of a hunting-horn. The central portion is a cone-shaped
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: beds, etc., fought against [strove to resist] evil thoughts,
and in full earnest and with force wanted to be holy, and yet
the hereditary, inborn evil sometimes did in sleep what it is
wont to do (as also St. Augustine and Jerome among others
confess), -- still each one held the other in esteem, so that
some, according to our teaching, were regarded as holy,
without sin and full of good works, so much so that with this
mind we would communicate and sell our good works to others,
as being superfluous to us for heaven. This is indeed true,
and seals, letters, and instances [that this happened] are at
hand.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Myths and Myth-Makers by John Fiske: together. When enticed by artful women,[105] he yields for a
while to the temptation; but by and by his longing to see
Penelope takes him homeward, albeit with a record which
Penelope might not altogether have liked. Again, though the
Sun, "always roaming with a hungry heart," has seen many
cities and customs of strange men, he is nevertheless confined
to a single path,--a circumstance which seems to have
occasioned much speculation in the primeval mind. Garcilaso de
la Vega relates of a certain Peruvian Inca, who seems to have
been an "infidel" with reference to the orthodox mythology of
his day, that he thought the Sun was not such a mighty god
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