| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Altar of the Dead by Henry James: a little content, that he hadn't at all events the religion some of
the people he had known wanted him to have. Gradually this
question was straightened out for him: it became clear to him that
the religion instilled by his earliest consciousness had been
simply the religion of the Dead. It suited his inclination, it
satisfied his spirit, it gave employment to his piety. It answered
his love of great offices, of a solemn and splendid ritual; for no
shrine could be more bedecked and no ceremonial more stately than
those to which his worship was attached. He had no imagination
about these things but that they were accessible to any one who
should feel the need of them. The poorest could build such temples
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOB 27:6 My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: my heart
shall not reproach me so long as I live.
JOB 27:7 Let mine enemy be as the wicked, and he that riseth up against
me as the unrighteous.
JOB 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained,
when God taketh away his soul?
JOB 27:9 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?
JOB 27:10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call
upon God?
JOB 27:11 I will teach you by the hand of God: that which is with the
Almighty will I not conceal.
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: words- then follow him that haply ye may be guided.
Amongst Moses' people is a nation guided in truth, and thereby act
they justly.
And we cut them up into twelve tribes, each a nation; and we
revealed unto Moses, when his people asked him for drink, 'Strike with
thy staff the rock!' and there gushed forth from it twelve springs,
each folk knew their drinking place. And we overshadowed them with the
cloud; and sent down upon them the manna and the quails, 'Eat of the
good things we have provided you with!'- Yet they did not wrong us,
but it was themselves they wronged.
And when it was said unto them, 'Dwell in this city and eat
The Koran |
