| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Lock and Key Library by Julian Hawthorne, Ed.: Then he expected something, dreaded something. Ah! why had he
yielded and allowed me to sleep here, I asked myself bitterly, as
the incidents of the day before flashed through my mind.
"Tell him," I said, "what I have told you; and say that I wish to
speak to him directly after breakfast." I could not confide my
story to any one else, but speak of it I must to some one or go
mad.
Every moment passed in that place was an added misery. Much to my
maid's surprise I said that I would dress in her room--the little
one which, as I have said, was close to my own. I felt better
there; but my utter fatigue and my wounded hand combined to make my
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Samuel 7: 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying: 'Hitherto hath the LORD helped us.'
1_Samuel 7: 13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel; and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
1_Samuel 7: 14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the border thereof did Israel deliver out of the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
1_Samuel 7: 15 And Samuel judged Israel all the days of his life.
1_Samuel 7: 16 And he went from year to year in circuit to Beth-el, and Gilgal, and Mizpah; and he judged Israel in all those places.
1_Samuel 7: 17 And his return was to Ramah, for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and he built there an altar unto the LORD.
1_Samuel 8: 1 And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
1_Samuel 8: 2 Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah; they were judges in Beer-sheba.
1_Samuel 8: 3 And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.
1_Samuel 8: 4 Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: Etext
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The Mayflower Compact
November 11, 1620 [This was November 21, old style calendar]
In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten,
the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of
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