| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 9: 5 And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting; and all the congregation drew near and stood before the LORD.
Leviticus 9: 6 And Moses said: 'This is the thing which the LORD commanded that ye should do; that the glory of the LORD may appear unto you.'
Leviticus 9: 7 And Moses said unto Aaron: 'Draw near unto the altar, and offer thy sin-offering, and thy burnt-offering, and make atonement for thyself, and for the people; and present the offering of the people, and make atonement for them; as the LORD commanded.'
Leviticus 9: 8 So Aaron drew near unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin-offering, which was for himself.
Leviticus 9: 9 And the sons of Aaron presented the blood unto him; and he dipped his finger in the blood, and put it upon the horns of the altar, and poured out the blood at the base of the altar.
Leviticus 9: 10 But the fat, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver of the sin-offering, he made smoke upon the altar; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Leviticus 9: 11 And the flesh and the skin were burnt with fire without the camp.
Leviticus 9: 12 And he slew the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered unto him the blood, and he dashed it against the altar round about.
Leviticus 9: 13 And they delivered the burnt-offering unto him, piece by piece, and the head; and he made them smoke upon the altar.
Leviticus 9: 14 And he washed the inwards and the legs, and made them smoke upon the burnt-offering on the altar.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen: "And so ended his affection," said Elizabeth impatiently. "There
has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I
wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving
away love!"
"I have been used to consider poetry as the FOOD of love," said
Darcy.
"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes
what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of
inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it
entirely away."
Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made
Pride and Prejudice |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: should be so kind. And--
The Fairy Lady suddenly came quite close to him and whispered, "Kiss
me!"
"And," said Mr. Skelmersdale, "like a fool, I did."
There are kisses and kisses, I am told, and this must have been quite
the other sort from Millie's resonant signals of regard. There was
something magic in that kiss; assuredly it marked a turning point.
At any rate, this is one of the passages that he thought sufficiently
important to describe most at length. I have tried to get it right,
I have tried to disentangle it from the hints and gestures through
which it came to me, but I have no doubt that it was all different
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