| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: LEV 14:2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his
cleansing: He shall be brought unto the priest:
LEV 14:3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp; and the priest
shall look, and, behold, if the plague of leprosy be healed in the
leper;
LEV 14:4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be
cleansed two birds alive and clean, and cedar wood, and scarlet, and
hyssop:
LEV 14:5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed
in an earthen vessel over running water:
LEV 14:6 As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood,
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Prufrock/Other Observations by T. S. Eliot: Come back to tell you all, I shall tell you all"--
If one, settling a pillow by her head,
Should say: "That is not what I meant at all;
That is not it, at all."
And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,
After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets,
After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the
floor--
And this, and so much more?--
It is impossible to say just what I mean I
Prufrock/Other Observations |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Euthyphro by Plato: the difficulty of verifying them. There is no measure or standard to which
they can be referred.
The next definition, 'Piety is that which is loved of the gods,' is
shipwrecked on a refined distinction between the state and the act,
corresponding respectively to the adjective (philon) and the participle
(philoumenon), or rather perhaps to the participle and the verb
(philoumenon and phileitai). The act is prior to the state (as in
Aristotle the energeia precedes the dunamis); and the state of being loved
is preceded by the act of being loved. But piety or holiness is preceded
by the act of being pious, not by the act of being loved; and therefore
piety and the state of being loved are different. Through such subtleties
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