| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: God" (Coloss. i. 20; Eph. i. 23), and in a corollary which bears
unmistakable marks of Buddhist influence, it was argued that, in
the final consummation of things, matter should be eliminated and
all spirit reunited with God, from whom it had primarily flowed.
It was impossible that such views as these should not soon be
taken up and applied to the fluctuating Christology of the time.
According to the "Shepherd of Hermas," an apocalyptic writing
nearly contemporary with the gospel of "Mark," the aeon or son of
God who existed previous to the creation was not the Christ, or
the Sophia, but the Pneuma or Holy Spirit, represented in the Old
Testament as the "angel of Jehovah." Jesus, in reward for his
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass: shade of disquiet rested upon me.
The absolute power of this distant "old master" had touched my
young spirit with but the point of its cold, cruel iron, and left
me something to brood over after the play and in moments of
repose. Grandmammy was, indeed, at that time, all the world to
me; and the thought of being separated from her, in any
considerable time, was more than an unwelcome intruder. It was
intolerable.
Children have their sorrows as well as men and women; and it
would be well to remember this in our dealings with them. SLAVE-
children _are_ children, and prove no exceptions to the general
My Bondage and My Freedom |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Anabasis by Xenophon: leading role. This occurred between 401 B.C. and
March 399 B.C.
PREPARER'S NOTE
This was typed from Dakyns' series, "The Works of Xenophon," a
four-volume set. The complete list of Xenophon's works (though
there is doubt about some of these) is:
Work Number of books
The Anabasis 7
The Hellenica 7
The Cyropaedia 8
The Memorabilia 4
Anabasis |
