| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezra 7: 2 the son of Shallum, the son of Zadok, the son of Ahitub,
Ezra 7: 3 the son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,
Ezra 7: 4 the son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
Ezra 7: 5 the son of Abishua, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the chief priest--
Ezra 7: 6 this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of Israel, had given; and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.
Ezra 7: 7 And there went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.
Ezra 7: 8 And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.
Ezra 7: 9 For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Ezra 7: 10 For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of the LORD, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and ordinances.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: that agility to have frighted em. Well, I'll see my
Father hanged, before I'll serve his Horse any more:
Well, I'll carry home my Bottle of Hay, and for
once make my Father's Horse turn puritan and
observe Fasting days, for he gets not a bit. But
soft! this way she followed me, therefore I'll take
the other Path; and because I'll be sure to have an
eye on him, I will take hands with some foolish
Creditor, and make every step backward.
[As he goes backwards the Bear comes in, and he
tumbles over, and runs away and leaves his bottle
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert: Hanno was so fatigued, so desperate--the loss of the elephants in
particular overwhelmed him--that he demanded poison from Demonades in
order to put an end to it all. Moreover he could already feel himself
stretched upon the cross.
Carthage had not strength enough to be indignant with him. Its losses
had amounted to one hundred thousand nine hundred and seventy-two
shekels of silver, fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty-three
shekels of gold, eighteen elephants, fourteen members of the Great
Council, three hundred of the rich, eight thousand citizens, corn
enough for three moons, a considerable quantity of baggage, and all
the engines of war! The defection of Narr' Havas was certain, and both
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