| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 31: 28 and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.
Genesis 31: 29 It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt; but the God of your father spoke unto me yesternight, saying: Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
Genesis 31: 30 And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'
Genesis 31: 31 And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'Because I was afraid; for I said: Lest thou shouldest take thy daughters from me by force.
Genesis 31: 32 With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, he shall not live; before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee.' --For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.--
Genesis 31: 33 And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.
Genesis 31: 34 Now Rachel had taken the teraphim, and put them in the saddle of the camel, and sat upon them. And Laban felt about all the tent, but found them not.
Genesis 31: 35 And she said to her father: 'Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me.' And he searched, but found not the teraphim.
Genesis 31: 36 And Jacob was wroth, and strove with Laban. And Jacob answered and said to Laban: 'What is my trespass? what is my sin, that thou hast hotly pursued after me?
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from A Treatise on Parents and Children by George Bernard Shaw: all the worse. It is becoming exceedingly grave at present, because
the last ray of art is being cut off from our schools by the
discontinuance of religious education.
The Impossibility of Secular Education
Now children must be taught some sort of religion. Secular education
is an impossibility. Secular education comes to this: that the only
reason for ceasing to do evil and learning to do well is that if you
do not you will be caned. This is worse than being taught in a church
school that if you become a dissenter you will go to hell; for hell is
presented as the instrument of something eternal, divine, and
inevitable: you cannot evade it the moment the schoolmaster's back is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton: "I wish you would go with me, Newland," his mother
said, suddenly pausing at the door of the Brown
coupe. "Louisa is fond of you; and of course it's on
account of dear May that I'm taking this step--and
also because, if we don't all stand together, there'll be
no such thing as Society left."
VII.
Mrs. Henry van der Luyden listened in silence to
her cousin Mrs. Archer's narrative.
It was all very well to tell yourself in advance that
Mrs. van der Luyden was always silent, and that, though
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