| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Koran: mighty, merciful.- God's promise!-God breaks not His promise, but most
men do not know!
They know the outside of this world's life, but of the hereafter
they are heedless. Have they not reflected in themselves, that God
created not the heavens and the earth, and what is between the two
except in truth, and for a stated and appointed time? but, verily,
many men in the meeting of their Lord do disbelieve.
Have they not journeyed on in the land and seen how was the end of
those before them who were stronger than they, and who turned up the
ground and cultivated it more than they do cultivate it? and there
came to them their apostles with manifest signs; for God would never
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 44: 17 And it shall be that when they enter in at the gates of the inner court, they shall be clothed with linen garments; and no wool shall come upon them, while they minister in the gates of the inner court, and within.
Ezekiel 44: 18 They shall have linen tires upon their heads, and shall have linen breeches upon their loins; they shall not gird themselves with any thing that causeth sweat.
Ezekiel 44: 19 And when they go forth into the outer court, even into the outer court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they minister, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments, that they sanctify not the people with their garments.
Ezekiel 44: 20 Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
Ezekiel 44: 21 Neither shall any priest drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
Ezekiel 44: 22 Neither shall they take for their wives a widow, nor her that is put away; but they shall take virgins of the seed of the house of Israel, or a widow that is the widow of a priest.
Ezekiel 44: 23 And they shall teach My people the difference between the holy and the common, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.
Ezekiel 44: 24 And in a controversy they shall stand to judge; according to Mine ordinances shall they judge it; and they shall keep My laws and My statutes in all My appointed seasons, and they shall hallow My sabbaths.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis: opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue. "Let it go? If people knew
how many things I've let go--"
"Oh, quit being such a bully."
"Yes, a fine figure you'd cut if I didn't bully you! You'd lie abed till noon
and play your idiotic fiddle till midnight! You're born lazy, and you're born
shiftless, and you're born cowardly, Paul Riesling--"
"Oh, now, don't say that, Zilla; you don't mean a word of it!" protested Mrs.
Babbitt.
"I will say that, and I mean every single last word of it!"
"Oh, now, Zilla, the idea!" Mrs. Babbitt was maternal and fussy. She was no
older than Zilla, but she seemed so--at first. She was placid and puffy and
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