| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Salome by Oscar Wilde: l'ange de la mort, et l'ange n'est-il pas venu?
SALOME. Laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Fille d'adultere, il n'y a qu'un homme qui puisse te
sauver. C'est celui dont je t'ai parle. Allez le chercher. Il est
dans un bateau sur la mer de Galilee, et il parle e ses disciples.
Agenouillez-vous au bord de la mer, et appelez-le par son nom.
Quand il viendra vers vous, et il vient vers tous ceux qui
l'appellent, prosternez-vous e ses pieds et demandez-lui la
remission de vos peches.
SALOME. Laisse-moi baiser ta bouche.
IOKANAAN. Soyez maudite, fille d'une mere incestueuse, soyez
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: mean: what had gone on for more than a century, it may be more than
two, in France, in Italy, and--I am sorry to have to say it--Germany
likewise. All historians know what I mean, and how enormous was the
evil. I only wonder that they have so much overlooked that item in
the causes of the Revolution. It seems to me to have been more
patent and potent in the sight of men, as it surely was in the sight
of Almighty God, than all the political and economic wrongs put
together. They might have issued in a change of dynasty or of laws.
That, issued in the blood of the offenders. Not a girl was enticed
into Louis XV.'s Petit Trianon, or other den of aristocratic
iniquity, but left behind her, parents nursing shame and sullen
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 28: 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy borders, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olives shall drop off.
Deuteronomy 28: 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but they shall not be thine; for they shall go into captivity.
Deuteronomy 28: 42 All thy trees and the fruit of thy land shall the locust possess.
Deuteronomy 28: 43 The stranger that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.
Deuteronomy 28: 44 He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him; he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.
Deuteronomy 28: 45 And all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou didst not hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep His commandments and His statutes which He commanded thee.
Deuteronomy 28: 46 And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever;
Deuteronomy 28: 47 because thou didst not serve the LORD thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;
Deuteronomy 28: 48 therefore shalt thou serve thine enemy whom the LORD shall send against thee, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in want of all things; and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck, until he have destroyed thee.
The Tanach |
