| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: your own head;
JOE 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
JOE 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their
border.
JOE 3:7 Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold
them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:
JOE 3:8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of
the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a
people far off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: mischief. In effect, the old English vice called CANT, which is
MORAL TARTUFFISM, has insinuated itself also into these moralists
(whom one must certainly read with an eye to their motives if one
MUST read them), concealed this time under the new form of the
scientific spirit; moreover, there is not absent from them a
secret struggle with the pangs of conscience, from which a race
of former Puritans must naturally suffer, in all their scientific
tinkering with morals. (Is not a moralist the opposite of a
Puritan? That is to say, as a thinker who regards morality as
questionable, as worthy of interrogation, in short, as a problem?
Is moralizing not-immoral?) In the end, they all want English
Beyond Good and Evil |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: their fortune, for he had divested himself of his property during
his lifetime, and chiefly in their favour. Ratcliffe, his sole
confidant, died at a good old age, but without ever naming the
place to which his master had finally retired, or the manner of
his death, or the place of his burial. It was supposed that on
all these particulars his patron had enjoined him strict secrecy.
The sudden disappearance of Elshie from his extraordinary
hermitage corroborated the reports which the common people had
spread concerning him. Many believed that, having ventured to
enter a consecrated building, contrary to his paction with the
Evil One, he had been bodily carried off while on his return to
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