| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Amos 6: 11 For, behold, the LORD commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten into splinters, and the little house into chips.
Amos 6: 12 Do horses run upon the rocks? Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
Amos 6: 13 Ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say: 'Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?'
Amos 6: 14 For, behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the LORD, the God of hosts; and they shall afflict you from the entrance of Hamath unto the Brook of the Arabah.
Amos 7: 1 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, He formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
Amos 7: 2 And if it had come to pass, that when they had made an end of eating the grass of the land--so I said: O Lord GOD, forgive, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7: 3 The LORD repented concerning this; 'It shall not be', saith the LORD.
Amos 7: 4 Thus the Lord GOD showed me; and, behold, the Lord GOD called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and would have eaten up the land.
Amos 7: 5 Then said I: O Lord GOD, cease, I beseech Thee; how shall Jacob stand? for he is small.
Amos 7: 6 The LORD repented concerning this; 'This also shall not be', saith the Lord GOD.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Timaeus by Plato: in many dissimilar things one nature deserving of a name, has assigned the
common name of bile. But the other kinds of bile are variously
distinguished by their colours. As for serum, that sort which is the
watery part of blood is innocent, but that which is a secretion of black
and acid bile is malignant when mingled by the power of heat with any salt
substance, and is then called acid phlegm. Again, the substance which is
formed by the liquefaction of new and tender flesh when air is present, if
inflated and encased in liquid so as to form bubbles, which separately are
invisible owing to their small size, but when collected are of a bulk which
is visible, and have a white colour arising out of the generation of
foam--all this decomposition of tender flesh when intermingled with air is
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas: security. I see thee cast expressive glances at the remains
of my supper."
"Yes, sir; for all I've had since yesterday was a slice of
bread and butter, with preserves on it. Although I don't
despise sweet things in proper time and place, I found the
supper rather light."
"Poor fellow!" said D'Artagnan. "Well, come; set to."
"Ah, sir, you are going to save my life a second time!"
cried Planchet.
And he seated himself at the table and ate as he did in the
merry days of the Rue des Fossoyeurs, whilst D'Artagnan
Twenty Years After |
