| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.
NUM 5:28 And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall
be free, and shall conceive seed.
NUM 5:29 This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to
another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
NUM 5:30 Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be
jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the LORD, and the
priest shall execute upon her all this law.
NUM 5:31 Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman
shall bear her iniquity.
NUM 6:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: estranges or alienates another's man-servant or maid-servant, or
entices them away by flattering words.
In whatever way such things happen, we must know that God does not wish
that you deprive your neighbor of anything that belongs to him so that
he suffer the loss and you gratify your avarice with it, even if you
could keep it honorably before the world; for it is a secret and
insidious imposition practiced under the hat, as we say, that it may
not be observed. For although you go your way as if you had done no one
any wrong, you have nevertheless injured your neighbor; and if it is
not called stealing and cheating, yet it is called coveting your
neighbor's property, that is, aiming at possession of it, enticing it
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Miracle Mongers and Their Methods by Harry Houdini: back almost to the beginning of the art itself.
The priests were exposed, Richardson was
exposed, Powell was exposed and so on down the
line; but the business continued to prosper, the
really clever performers drew quite fashionable
audiences for a long time, and it was probably
the demand for a higher form of entertainment,
resulting from a refinement of the
public taste, rather than the result of the many
exposures, that finally relegated the Fire-
eaters to the haunts of the proletariat.
Miracle Mongers and Their Methods |
