| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Adventure by Jack London: and he sprang to his feet, bow and arrow in hand, the arrow fixed
in the notch and the bow bending as he sprang. The man he let
drive at dodged the arrow, and before he could shoot another his
enemies were upon him. He was rolled over and over and dragged to
his feet, disarmed and helpless.
"Why, he's an ancient Babylonian!" Joan cried, regarding him.
"He's an Assyrian, a Phoenician! Look at that straight nose, that
narrow face, those high cheek-bones--and that slanting, oval
forehead, and the beard, and the eyes, too."
"And the snaky locks," Sheldon laughed.
The bushman was in mortal fear, led by all his training to expect
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia by Samuel Johnson: performed?"
"The original of ancient customs," said Imlac, "is commonly
unknown, for the practice often continues when the cause has
ceased; and concerning superstitious ceremonies it is vain to
conjecture; for what reason did not dictate, reason cannot explain.
I have long believed that the practice of embalming arose only from
tenderness to the remains of relations or friends; and to this
opinion I am more inclined because it seems impossible that this
care should have been general; had all the dead been embalmed,
their repositories must in time have been more spacious than the
dwellings of the living. I suppose only the rich or honourable
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Esther 9: 4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.
Esther 9: 5 And the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and with slaughter and destruction, and did what they would unto them that hated them.
Esther 9: 6 And in Shushan the castle the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.
Esther 9: 7 And Parshandatha, and Dalphon, and Aspatha,
Esther 9: 8 and Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,
Esther 9: 9 and Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vaizatha,
Esther 9: 10 the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews' enemy, slew they; but on the spoil they laid not their hand.
Esther 9: 11 On that day the number of those that were slain in Shushan the castle was brought before the king.
Esther 9: 12 And the king said unto Esther the queen: 'The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the castle, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king's provinces! Now whatever thy petition, it shall be granted thee; and whatever thy request further, it shall be done.'
Esther 9: 13 Then said Esther: 'If it please the king, let it be granted to the Jews that are in Shushan to do to-morrow also according unto this day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upo 
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