| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: left, and in addition, by way of thanks, burn and devastate house and
home, and outrage and kill wife and children.
And, in short, if you steal much, depend upon it that again as much
will be stolen from you; and he who robs and acquires with violence and
wrong will submit to one who shall deal after the same fashion with
him. For God is master of this art, that since every one robs and
steals from the other, He punishes one thief by means of another. Else
where should we find enough gallows and ropes?
Now, whoever is willing to be instructed let him know that this is the
commandment of God, and that it must not be treated as a jest. For
although you despise us, defraud, steal, and rob, we will indeed manage
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Art of War by Sun Tzu: [Defined as "low-lying places, so heavy with mud as to be
impassable for chariots and horsemen."]
and crevasses,
[Defined by Mei Yao-ch`en as "a narrow difficult way between
beetling cliffs." Tu Mu's note is "ground covered with trees and
rocks, and intersected by numerous ravines and pitfalls." This
is very vague, but Chia Lin explains it clearly enough as a
defile or narrow pass, and Chang Yu takes much the same view. On
the whole, the weight of the commentators certainly inclines to
the rendering "defile." But the ordinary meaning of the Chinese
in one place is "a crack or fissure" and the fact that the
The Art of War |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarecrow of Oz by L. Frank Baum: walks. She wears no jewels, for her beauty would shame
them.
For attendants Glinda has half a hundred of the
loveliest girls in Oz. They are gathered from all over
Oz, from among the Winkies, the Munchkins, the Gillikins
and the Quadlings, as well as from Ozma's magnificent
Emerald City, and it is considered a great favor to be
allowed to serve the Royal Sorceress.
Among the many wonderful things in Glinda's palace is
the Great Book of Records. In this book is inscribed
everything that takes place in all the world, just the
The Scarecrow of Oz |
