| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Cratylus by Plato: doxa is e dioxis tou eidenai, or expresses the shooting from a bow (toxon).
The latter etymology is confirmed by the words boulesthai, boule, aboulia,
which all have to do with shooting (bole): and similarly oiesis is nothing
but the movement (oisis) of the soul towards essence. Ekousion is to
eikon--the yielding--anagke is e an agke iousa, the passage through ravines
which impede motion: aletheia is theia ale, divine motion. Pseudos is the
opposite of this, implying the principle of constraint and forced repose,
which is expressed under the figure of sleep, to eudon; the psi is an
addition. Onoma, a name, affirms the real existence of that which is
sought after--on ou masma estin. On and ousia are only ion with an iota
broken off; and ouk on is ouk ion. 'And what are ion, reon, doun?' One
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: character, naturally belonged. To the high mountain peaks of
faith and sanctity he would have climbed, had not the tendency
been thwarted by the burden, whatever it might be, of crime or
anguish, beneath which it was his doom to totter. It kept him
down on a level with the lowest; him, the man of ethereal
attributes, whose voice the angels might else have listened to
and answered! But this very burden it was that gave him
sympathies so intimate with the sinful brotherhood of mankind; so
that his heart vibrated in unison with theirs, and received their
pain into itself and sent its own throb of pain through a
thousand other hearts, in gushes of sad, persuasive eloquence.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from King James Bible: ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
JOS 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto
Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now,
lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.
JOS 14:11 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses
sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war,
both to go out, and to come in.
JOS 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake
in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there,
and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be
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