| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 48: 3 Hark! a cry from Horonaim, spoiling and great destruction!
Jeremiah 48: 4 Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.
Jeremiah 48: 5 For by the ascent of Luhith with continual weeping shall they go up; for in the going down of Horonaim they have heard the distressing cry of destruction.
Jeremiah 48: 6 Flee, save your lives, and be like a tamarisk in the wilderness.
Jeremiah 48: 7 For, because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou also shalt be taken; and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity, his priests and his princes together.
Jeremiah 48: 8 And the spoiler shall come upon every city, and no city shall escape; the valley also shall perish, and the plain shall be destroyed; as the LORD hath spoken.
Jeremiah 48: 9 Give wings unto Moab, for she must fly and get away; and her cities shall become a desolation, without any to dwell therein.
Jeremiah 48: 10 Cursed be he that doeth the work of the LORD with a slack hand, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Jeremiah 48: 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah 48: 12 Therefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will send unto him them that tilt up, and they shall tilt him up; and they shall empty his vessels, and break their bottles i 
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Economist by Xenophon: cull a sample of their precepts, which I supplement with others from
the royal code[7] where applicable; and so I do my best to shape the
members of my household into the likeness of just men concerning that
which passes through their hands. And now observe--the laws first
mentioned act as penalties, deterrent to transgressors only; whereas
the royal code aims higher: by it not only is the malefactor punished,
but the righteous and just person is rewarded.[8] The result is, that
many a man, beholding how the just grow ever wealthier than the
unjust, albeit harbouring in his heart some covetous desires, is
constant still to virtue. To abstain from unjust dealing is engrained
in him.[9]
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: "It is selling wheat dear and keeping bread cheap," cried Achille
Pigoult sarcastically, thinking that he made a joke, but actually
expressing one of the delusions that reign in France.
"It is the happiness of all, obtained by the triumph of humanitarian
doctrines," continued Simon.
"What did I tell you?" said Achille to his neighbors.
"Hush! silence! let us listen!" said various voices.
"Messieurs," said the stout Mollot, smiling, "the debate is beginning;
give your attention to the orator; and let him explain himself."
"In all transitional epochs, Messieurs," continued Simon, gravely,
"and we are now in such an epoch--"
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