| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Allan Quatermain by H. Rider Haggard: be accursed from generation to generation, in that the people
say that he slew his brother, Lousta, by treachery in the night-time.'
The old Zulu paused, and I saw that he was deeply agitated by
his own story. Presently he lifted his head, which he had bowed
to his breast, and went on:
'I was the man, Bougwan. Ou! I was that man, and now hark
thou! Even as I am so wilt thou be -- a tool, a plaything, an
ox of burden to carry the evil deeds of another. Listen! When
thou didst creep after the "Lady of the Night" I was hard upon
thy track. When she struck thee with the knife in the sleeping
place of the White Queen I was there also; when thou didst
Allan Quatermain |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: instead. Thereupon the Swan, to induce him to spare her life,
began to sing; but she saved him nothing but the trouble of killing
her, for she died of the song.
The Lion, the Cock, and the Ass
A LION was about to attack a braying Ass, when a Cock near by
crowed shrilly, and the Lion ran away. "What frightened him?" the
Ass asked.
"Lions have a superstitious terror of my voice," answered the Cock,
proudly.
"Well, well, well," said the Ass, shaking his head; "I should think
that any animal that is afraid of your voice and doesn't mind mine
Fantastic Fables |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 27: 15 The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his course were twenty and four thousand.
1_Chronicles 27: 16 Furthermore over the tribes of Israel: of the Reubenites was Eliezer the son of Zichri the ruler; of the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maacah;
1_Chronicles 27: 17 of Levi, Hashabiah the son of Kemuel; of Aaron, Zadok;
1_Chronicles 27: 18 of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David; of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael;
1_Chronicles 27: 19 of Zebulun, Ishmaiah the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth the son of Azriel;
1_Chronicles 27: 20 of the children of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Azaziah; of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joel the son of Pedaiah;
1_Chronicles 27: 21 of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Gilead, Iddo the son of Zechariah; of Benjamin, Jaasiel the son of Abner;
1_Chronicles 27: 22 of Dan, Azarel the son of Jeroham. These were the captains of the tribes of Israel.
1_Chronicles 27: 23 But David took not the number of them from twenty years old and under; because the LORD had said He would increase Israel like to the stars of heaven.
1_Chronicles 27: 24 Joab the son of Zeruiah began to number, but finished not; and there came wrath for this upon Israel; neither was the number put into the account in the chronicles of king David.
The Tanach |
