| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Republic by Plato: sight and the other senses, and in company with truth to attain absolute
being: And here, my friend, great caution is required.
Why great caution?
Do you not remark, I said, how great is the evil which dialectic has
introduced?
What evil? he said.
The students of the art are filled with lawlessness.
Quite true, he said.
Do you think that there is anything so very unnatural or inexcusable in
their case? or will you make allowance for them?
In what way make allowance?
The Republic |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Out of Time's Abyss by Edgar Rice Burroughs: parted before him; but no sooner had he ascended a few rungs than
he was seized by one foot and an effort made to drag him down.
With a quick backward glance the Englishman, clinging firmly to
the ladder with both hands, drew up his free foot and with all
the strength of a powerful leg, planted a heavy shoe squarely in
the flat face of the Wieroo that held him. Shrieking horribly,
the creature clapped both hands to its face and sank to the
ground while Bradley clambered quickly the remaining distance to
the roof, though no sooner did he reach the top of the ladder
than a great flapping of wings beneath him warned him that the
Wieroos were rising after him. A moment later they swarmed about
Out of Time's Abyss |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: out or not; a law of retribution; of vengeance inflicted justly,
though not necessarily by just men. The public executioner was
seldom a very estimable personage, at least under the old Regime;
and those who have been the scourges of God have been, in general,
mere scourges, and nothing better; smiting blindly, rashly,
confusedly; confounding too often the innocent with the guilty, till
they have seemed only to punish crime by crime, and replace old sins
by new. But, however insoluble, however saddening that puzzle be, I
must believe--as long as I believe in any God at all--that such men
as Robespierre were His instruments, even in their crimes.
In the case of the French Revolution, indeed, the wickedness of
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