| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart: doubts assailed her. What if Jimmy were not so well, should die,
as was possible, and she had not let his mother see him!
Monia Reiff was very busy that day. Harmony did not leave the
workroom until eight o'clock. During all that time, while her
slim fingers worked over fragile laces and soft chiffons, she was
seeing Jimmy as she had seen him last, with the flower fairies on
his pillow, and Peter, keeping watch over the crowd in the
Karntnerstrasse, looking with his steady eyes for her.
No part of the city was safe for a young girl after night, she
knew; the sixteenth district was no better than the rest, rather
worse in places. But the longing to see the house on the
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 3: 47 thou shalt take five shekels apiece by the poll; after the shekel of the sanctuary shalt thou take them--the shekel is twenty gerahs.
Numbers 3: 48 And thou shalt give the money wherewith they that remain over of them are redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons.'
Numbers 3: 49 And Moses took the redemption-money from them that were over and above them that were redeemed by the Levites;
Numbers 3: 50 from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money: a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3: 51 And Moses gave the redemption-money unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word of the LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Numbers 4: 1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying:
Numbers 4: 2 'Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, by their families, by their fathers' houses,
Numbers 4: 3 from thirty years old and upward even until fifty years old, all that enter upon the service, to do work in the tent of meeting.
Numbers 4: 4 This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things:
Numbers 4: 5 when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall go in, and his sons, and they shall take down the veil of the screen, and cover the ark of the testimony with it;
Numbers 4: 6 and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: KING.
Such joy as death, I do assure me that,
And naught but death, unless of her I hear,
And that with speed; I cannot sigh thus long--
But what a tumult do I hear within?
[The cry within, 'joy and happiness!']
COLLEN.
I hear a noise of over-passing joy
Within the court; my Lord, be of good comfort--
And here comes one in haste.
[Enter the Clown running.]
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