| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from What is Man? by Mark Twain: arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or
two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man,
savage or civilized!
Y.M. Oh, come! you are abolishing the intellectual frontier
which separates man and beast.
O.M. I beg your pardon. One cannot abolish what does not exist.
Y.M. You are not in earnest, I hope. You cannot mean to
seriously say there is no such frontier.
O.M. I do say it seriously. The instances of the horse, the
gull, the mother bird, and the elephant show that those creatures
put their this's and thats together just as Edison would have
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 41: 20 (41:12) Out of his nostrils goeth smoke, as out of a seething pot and burning rushes.
Job 41: 21 (41:13) His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
Job 41: 22 (41:14) In his neck abideth strength, and dismay danceth before him.
Job 41: 23 (41:15) The flakes of his flesh are joined together; they are firm upon him; they cannot be moved.
Job 41: 24 (41:16) His heart is as firm as a stone; yea, firm as the nether millstone.
Job 41: 25 (41:17) When he raiseth himself up, the mighty are afraid; by reason of despair they are beside themselves.
Job 41: 26 (41:18) If one lay at him with the sword, it will not hold; nor the spear, the dart, nor the pointed shaft.
Job 41: 27 (41:19) He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.
Job 41: 28 (41:20) The arrow cannot make him flee; slingstones are turned with him into stubble.
Job 41: 29 (41:21) Clubs are accounted as stubble; he laugheth at the rattling of the javelin.
Job 41: 30 (41:22) Sharpest potsherds are under him; he spreadeth a threshing-sledge upon the mire.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Judges 20: 28 and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days--saying: 'Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?' And the LORD said: 'Go up; for to-morrow I will deliver him into thy hand.'
Judges 20: 29 And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.
Judges 20: 30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of Benjamin on the third day, and set themselves in array against Gibeah, as at other times.
Judges 20: 31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite and kill of the people, as at other times, in the field, in the highways, of which one goeth up to Beth-el, and the other to Gibeah, about thirty men of Israel.
Judges 20: 32 And the children of Benjamin said: 'They are smitten down before us, as at the first.' But the children of Israel said: 'Let us flee, and draw them away from the city unto the highways.'
Judges 20: 33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and set themselves in array at Baal-tamar; and the liers-in-wait of Israel broke forth out of their place, even out of Maareh-geba.
Judges 20: 34 And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.
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