| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 32: 11 For thus saith the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.
Ezekiel 32: 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall; the terrible of the nations are they all; and they shall spoil the pride of Egypt, and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed.
Ezekiel 32: 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.
Ezekiel 32: 14 Then will I make their waters to settle, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord GOD.
Ezekiel 32: 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and waste, a land destitute of that whereof it was full, when I shall smite all them that dwell therein, then shall they know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 32: 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; for Egypt, and for all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord GOD.'
Ezekiel 32: 17 It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
Ezekiel 32: 18 'Son of man, wail for the multitude of Egypt, and cast them down, even her, with the daughters of the mighty nations, unto the nether parts of the earth, with them that go down into t 
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: and that they were willing to secure his release by
paying half of the tax demanded from him out
of the factory funds. Uncle got together thirty
thousand, the factory contributed another thirty, and he was
freed, being given a certificate that he had ceased to be an
exploiter or a property owner, and would in future be
subject only to such taxes as might be levied on the working
population. The nephew was also freed, on the grounds that
he was wanted at the leather-works.
I asked him how things were going on. He said, "Fairly
well, only uncle keeps worrying because the men still call
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from When the World Shook by H. Rider Haggard: were too large and too many, but the country interested him so
much that I gathered he must have given great attention to
agriculture at some time in the past. He pointed out to me that
the climate was fine, and the land so fertile that with a proper
system of irrigation and water-storage it could support tens of
millions and feed not only itself but a great part of the
outlying world.
"But where are the people?" he asked. "Outside of those huge
hives," and he indicated the great cities, "I see few of them,
though doubtless some of the men are fighting in this war. Well,
in the days to come this must be remedied."
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