| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin: law ought to give to OUTCASTS MERELY AS OUTCASTS." I merely put
beside this expression of the gentlemanly mind of England in 1865, a
part of the message which Isaiah was ordered to "lift up his voice
like a trumpet" in declaring to the gentlemen of his day: "Ye fast
for strife, and to smite with the fist of wickedness. Is not this
the fast that I have chosen, to deal thy bread to the hungry, and
that thou bring the poor THAT ARE CAST OUT (margin, 'afflicted') to
THY house?" The falsehood on which the writer had mentally founded
himself, as previously stated by him, was this: "To confound the
functions of the dispensers of the poor-rates with those of the
dispensers of a charitable institution is a great and pernicious
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: purely fortuitous and magical or more distinctly rational
and personal; there arose the sense of Sin, or of
offence against these powers; there arose a complex
ritual of Expiation--whether by personal sacrifice and
suffering or by the sacrifice of victims. There arose too
a whole catalogue of ceremonies--ceremonies of Initiation,
by which the novice should learn to keep within the good
grace of the Powers, and under the blessing of his Tribe
and the protection of its Totem; ceremonies of Eucharistic
meals which should restore the lost sanctity of the common
life and remove the sense of guilt and isolation; ceremonies
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Stories by Alice Dunbar: happened, she would have said nothing, but looked wise.
If you had asked Claralie, she would have laughed and said she
always preferred Leon.
If you had asked Theophile, he would have wondered that you
thought he had ever meant more than to tease Manuela.
If you had asked the Wizened One, she would have offered you a
charm.
But St. Rocque knows, for he is a good saint, and if you believe
in him and are true and good, and make your nouvenas with a clean
heart, he will grant your wish.
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