| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Alexandria and her Schools by Charles Kingsley: Philo offered a solution in that idea of a Logos, or Word of God,
Divinity articulate, speaking and acting in time and space, and
therefore by successive acts; and so doing, in time and space, the will
of the timeless and spaceless Father, the Abysmal and Eternal Being, of
whom he was the perfect likeness. In calling this person the Logos, and
making him the source of all human reason, and knowledge of eternal
laws, he only translated from Hebrew into Greek the name which he found
in his sacred books, "The Word of God." As yet we have found no unfair
allegorising of Moses, or twisting of Plato. How then has he incurred
this accusation?
I cannot think, again, that he was unfair in supposing that he might
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: and Phinehas, were slain.
SA1 4:12 And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to
Shiloh the same day with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.
SA1 4:13 And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside
watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man
came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.
SA1 4:14 And when Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What
meaneth the noise of this tumult? And the man came in hastily, and told
Eli.
SA1 4:15 Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim,
that he could not see.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: plunge into the water, which was already up to his waist.
Athos followed him before the felucca rose again on the
waves; the cable which tied the boat to the vessel was then
seen plainly rising out of the sea.
D'Artagnan swam to it and held it, suspending himself by
this rope, his head alone out of water.
In one second Athos joined him.
Then they saw, as the felucca turned, two other heads
peeping, those of Aramis and Grimaud.
"I am uneasy about Blaisois," said Athos; "he can, he says,
only swim in rivers."
Twenty Years After |
