| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank Baum: stuffing may fall out. One of your eyes seems
loose, and you may have to sew it on tighter. If
you talk too much you'll wear out your scarlet
plush tongue, which ought to have been hemmed on
the edges. And remember you belong to me and must
return here as soon as your mission is
accomplished."
"I'm going with Scraps and Ojo," announced
the Glass Cat.
"You can't," said the Magician.
"Why not?"
The Patchwork Girl of Oz |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from King James Bible: given unto you and to your fathers for ever and ever:
JER 25:6 And go not after other gods to serve them, and to worship
them, and provoke me not to anger with the works of your hands; and I
will do you no hurt.
JER 25:7 Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the LORD; that ye
might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.
JER 25:8 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts; Because ye have not
heard my words,
JER 25:9 Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north,
saith the LORD, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and
will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof,
King James Bible |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Historical Lecturers and Essays by Charles Kingsley: kingdom of God in facts, investigating nature reverently, patiently,
in faith believing that God, who understands His own work best, will
make him understand it likewise. The false man of science is he who
seeks the kingdom of this world, who cares nothing about the real
interpretation of facts: but is content with such an
interpretation as will earn him the good things of this world--the
red hat and gown, the ambling mule, the silk clothes, the
partridges, capons, and pheasants, the gold florins chinking in his
palm. At such pretenders Paracelsus sneered, at last only too
fiercely, not only as men whose knowledge consisted chiefly in
wearing white gloves, but as rogues, liars, villains, and every
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