| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Jeremiah 1: 11 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying: 'Jeremiah, what seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a rod of an almond-tree.'
Jeremiah 1: 12 Then said the LORD unto me: 'Thou hast well seen; for I watch over My word to perform it.'
Jeremiah 1: 13 And the word of the LORD came unto me the second time, saying: 'What seest thou?' And I said: 'I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is from the north.'
Jeremiah 1: 14 Then the LORD said unto me: 'Out of the north the evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.
Jeremiah 1: 15 For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the LORD; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 1: 16 And I will utter My judgments against them touching all their wickedness; in that they have forsaken me, and have offered unto other gods, and worshipped the work of their own hands. Jeremiah 1: 17 Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak unto them all that I command thee; be not dismayed at them, lest I dismay thee before them.
Jeremiah 1: 18 For, behold, I have made thee this day a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, and against the people of the land.
Jeremiah 1: 19 And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to deliver thee.'
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from An International Episode by Henry James: pleasure inaccessible; but no escort now, for such an expedition,
could have been more suitable than their devoted young countryman,
whose mission in life, it might almost be said, was to find
chairs for ladies, and who appeared on the stroke of half-past
five with a white camellia in his buttonhole.
"I have written to Lord Lambeth, my dear," said Mrs. Westgate to her sister,
on coming into the room where Bessie Alden, drawing on her long gray gloves,
was entertaining their visitor.
Bessie said nothing, but Willie Woodley exclaimed that his lordship
was in town; he had seen his name in the Morning Post.
"Do you read the Morning Post?" asked Mrs. Westgate.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: Phanuel tried to persuade him, promising, as a guaranty of the honesty
of his projects, the submission of the Essenians to the King. These
poor people, clad only in linen, untameable in spite of severe
treatment, endowed with the power to divine the future by reading the
stars, had succeeded in commanding a certain degree of respect.
"What is the important matter thou wouldst communicate to me?" Antipas
inquired, with sudden recollection.
Before Phanuel could reply, a Negro entered the room in great haste.
He was covered with dust, and panted so violently that he could
scarcely utter the single word:
"Vitellus!"
Herodias |
