| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Barlaam and Ioasaph by St. John of Damascus: the oblation into his own Body and Blood, by the visitation of
the Holy Ghost, for the sanctification and enlightenment of them
that with desire partake thereof.
"Faithfully worship, with honour and reverence, the venerable
likeness of the features of the Lord, the Word of God, who for
our sake was made man, thinking to behold in the Image thy
Creator himself. `For the honour of the Image, saith one of the
Saints, passeth over to the original.' The original is the thing
imaged, and from it cometh the derivation. For when we see the
drawing in the Image, in our mind's eye we pass over to the true
form of which it is an Image, and devoutly worship the form of
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: scintillated with myriad stars, brighter than you can ever see
farther North, and the great waves that the Gulf breeze tossed up
in restless profusion gleamed with the white fire of
phosphorescent flame. The wet sands on the beach glowed white
fire; the posts of the pier where the waves had leapt and left a
laughing kiss, the sides of the little boats and fish-cars
tugging at their ropes, alike showed white and flaming, as though
the sea and all it touched were afire.
Annette and Philip paused midway the pier to watch two fishermen
casting their nets. With heads bared to the breeze, they stood
in clear silhouette against the white background of sea.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Unconscious Comedians by Honore de Balzac: the grasshopper."
"Here's the history of Ravenouillet," continued Bixiou, when the three
friends reached the boulevard. "In 1831 Massol, the councillor of
state who is dealing with your case, was a lawyer-journalist who at
that time never thought of being more than Keeper of the Seals, and
deigned to have King Louis-Philippe on his throne. Forgive his
ambition, he's from Carcassonne. One morning there entered to him a
young rustic of his parts, who said: 'You know me very well, Mossoo
Massol; I'm your neighbour the grocer's little boy; I've come from
down there, for they tell me a fellow is certain to get a place if he
comes to Paris.' Hearing these words, Massol shuddered, and said to
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