| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Chronicles 25: 28 And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.
2_Chronicles 26: 1 And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2_Chronicles 26: 2 He built Eloth, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2_Chronicles 26: 3 Sixteen years old was Uzziah when he began to reign; and he reigned fifty and two years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jecoliah of Jerusalem.
2_Chronicles 26: 4 And he did that, which was right in the eyes of the LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done.
2_Chronicles 26: 5 And he set himself to seek God in the days of Zechariah, who had understanding in the vision of God; and as long as he sought the LORD, God made him to prosper.
2_Chronicles 26: 6 And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and broke down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod; and he built cities in the country of Ashdod, and among the Philistines.
2_Chronicles 26: 7 And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur-baal, and the Meunim.
2_Chronicles 26: 8 And the Ammonites gave gifts to Uzziah; and his name spread abroad even to the entrance of Egypt; for he waxed exceeding strong.
2_Chronicles 26: 9 Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the Turning, and fortified them.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: as they drew nearer they spread over a greater width of sky.
The southward wing flung itself in an arrow-headed cloud athwart
the sun. And then suddenly they swept round to the eastward and
streamed eastward, growing smaller and smaller and clearer and
clearer again until they vanished from the sky. And after that we
noted to the northward and very high Evesham's fighting machines
hanging high over Naples like an evening swarm of gnats.
"It seemed to have no more to do with us than a flight of birds.
"Even the mutter of guns far away in the southeast seemed to us
to signify nothing. . . .
"Each day, each dream after that, we were still exalted, still
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Amy Foster by Joseph Conrad: of these villagers here, the soles of his feet did not
seem to me to touch the dust of the road. He
vaulted over the stiles, paced these slopes with a
long elastic stride that made him noticeable at a
great distance, and had lustrous black eyes. He
was so different from the mankind around that,
with his freedom of movement, his soft--a little
startled, glance, his olive complexion and graceful
bearing, his humanity suggested to me the nature
of a woodland creature. He came from there."
The doctor pointed with his whip, and from the
Amy Foster |
