| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 7: 2 (7:3) Lest he tear my soul like a lion, rending it in pieces, while there is none to deliver.
Psalms 7: 3 (7:4) O LORD my God, if I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalms 7: 4 (7:5) If I have requited him that did evil unto me, or spoiled mine adversary unto emptiness;
Psalms 7: 5 (7:6) Let the enemy pursue my soul, and overtake it, and tread my life down to the earth; yea, let him lay my glory in the dust. Selah
Psalms 7: 6 (7:7) Arise, O LORD, in Thine anger, lift up Thyself in indignation against mine adversaries; yea, awake for me at the judgment which Thou hast commanded.
Psalms 7: 7 (7:8) And let the congregation of the peoples compass Thee about, and over them return Thou on high.
Psalms 7: 8 (7:9) O LORD, who ministerest judgment to the peoples, judge me, O LORD, according to my righteousness, and according to mine integrity that is in me.
Psalms 7: 9 (7:10) Oh that a full measure of evil might come upon the wicked, and that Thou wouldest establish the righteous; for the righteous God trieth the heart and reins.
Psalms 7: 10 (7:11) My shield is with God, who saveth the upright in heart.
Psalms 7: 11 (7:12) God is a righteous judge, yea, a God that hath indignation every day:
Psalms 7: 12 (7:13) If a man turn not, He will whet His sword, He hath bent His bow, and made it ready;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Anthem by Ayn Rand: touches upon the air of the City. So we
walked on, our box in our arms, our heart empty.
We are doomed. Whatever days are left
to us, we shall spend them alone. And we
have heard of the corruption to be found
in solitude. We have torn ourselves from
the truth which is our brother men, and there
is no road back for us, and no redemption.
We know these things, but we do not care.
We care for nothing on earth. We are tired.
Only the glass box in our arms is like a
Anthem |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens: with great solemnity. 'Amen.'
'John Grueby,' said the long-winded gentleman, in a tone of mild
reproof, 'his lordship said Amen.'
'I heard my lord, sir,' said the man, sitting like a statue on his
horse.
'And do not YOU say Amen, likewise?'
To which John Grueby made no reply at all, but sat looking straight
before him.
'You surprise me, Grueby,' said the gentleman. 'At a crisis like
the present, when Queen Elizabeth, that maiden monarch, weeps
within her tomb, and Bloody Mary, with a brow of gloom and shadow,
Barnaby Rudge |
