| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: the congregation and the altar, and thou shalt put water therein.
EXO 30:19 For Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet
thereat:
EXO 30:20 When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they
shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the
altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the LORD:
EXO 30:21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die
not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his
seed throughout their generations.
EXO 30:22 Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
EXO 30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gorgias by Plato: and
as cookery : medicine :: rhetoric : justice.
And this, I say, is the natural difference between the rhetorician and the
sophist, but by reason of their near connection, they are apt to be jumbled
up together; neither do they know what to make of themselves, nor do other
men know what to make of them. For if the body presided over itself, and
were not under the guidance of the soul, and the soul did not discern and
discriminate between cookery and medicine, but the body was made the judge
of them, and the rule of judgment was the bodily delight which was given by
them, then the word of Anaxagoras, that word with which you, friend Polus,
are so well acquainted, would prevail far and wide: 'Chaos' would come
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Pierrette by Honore de Balzac: a strange chance, the sheets of lead cost just the sum he had given
Pierrette for her journey from Nantes to Provins. The brave Breton,
who was able to resist the awful pain of himself making the coffin of
his dear one and lining with his memories those burial planks, could
not bear up against this strange reminder. His strength gave way; he
was not able to lift the lead, and the plumber, seeing this, came with
him, and offered to accompany him to the house and solder the last
sheet when the body had been laid in the coffin.
The Breton burned the plane and all the tools he had used. Then he
settled his accounts with Frappier and bade him farewell. The heroism
with which the poor lad personally performed, like the grandmother,
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