| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 20: 13 And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father's house, that I said unto her: This is thy kindness which thou shalt show unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me: He is my brother.'
Genesis 20: 14 And Abimelech took sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants, and gave them unto Abraham, and restored him Sarah his wife.
Genesis 20: 15 And Abimelech said: 'Behold, my land is before thee: dwell where it pleaseth thee.'
Genesis 20: 16 And unto Sarah he said: 'Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver; behold, it is for thee a covering of the eyes to all that are with thee; and before all men thou art righted.'
Genesis 20: 17 And Abraham prayed unto God; and God healed Abimelech, and his wife, and his maid-servants; and they bore children.
Genesis 20: 18 For the LORD had fast closed up all the wombs of the house of Abimelech, because of Sarah Abraham's wife.
Genesis 21: 1 And the LORD remembered Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as He had spoken.
Genesis 21: 2 And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.
Genesis 21: 3 And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bore to him, Isaac.
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: Ambianorum pervenit; qui se suaque omnia sine mora dediderunt. Eorum
fines Nervii attingebant. Quorum de natura moribusque Caesar cum
quaereret, sic reperiebat: nullum esse aditum ad eos mercatoribus; nihil
pati vini reliquarumque rerum ad luxuriam pertinentium inferri, quod his
rebus relanguescere animos eorum et remitti virtutem existimarent; esse
homines feros magnaeque virtutis; increpitare atque incusare reliquos
Belgas, qui se populo Romano dedidissent patriamque virtutem proiecissent;
confirmare sese neque legatos missuros neque ullam condicionem pacis
accepturos.
Cum per eorum fines triduum iter fecisset, inveniebat ex captivis
Sabim flumen a castris suis non amplius milibus passuum X abesse; trans id
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: obstacles disappear. Lousteau himself (partly from selfish motives)
had tried to warn him away by describing Journalism and Literature in
their practical aspects. Lucien had refused to believe that there
could be so much hidden corruption; but now he had heard the
journalists themselves crying woe for their hurt, he had seen them at
their work, had watched them tearing their foster-mother's heart to
read auguries of the future.
That evening he had seen things as they are. He beheld the very
heart's core of corruption of that Paris which Blucher so aptly
described; and so far from shuddering at the sight, he was intoxicated
with enjoyment of the intellectually stimulating society in which he
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