| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Mal. I thanke you Doctor
Macd. What's the Disease he meanes?
Mal. Tis call'd the Euill.
A most myraculous worke in this good King,
Which often since my heere remaine in England,
I haue seene him do: How he solicites heauen
Himselfe best knowes: but strangely visited people
All swolne and Vlcerous, pittifull to the eye,
The meere dispaire of Surgery, he cures,
Hanging a golden stampe about their neckes,
Put on with holy Prayers, and 'tis spoken
Macbeth |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 4: 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'
Genesis 4: 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 5: 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;
Genesis 5: 2 male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5: 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
Genesis 5: 4 And the days of Adam after he begot Seth were eight hundred years; and he begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 5: 5 And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years; and he died.
Genesis 5: 6 And Seth lived a hundred and five years, and begot Enosh.
Genesis 5: 7 And Seth lived after he begot Enosh eight hundred and seven years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 5: 8 And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years; and he died.
Genesis 5: 9 And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Kenan.
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: several times commenced a reply without power to conclude it. At
length I made an effort, and in a tone of poignant grief
exclaimed: `Perfidious Manon! perfidious, perfidious creature!'
She had no wish, she repeated with a flood of tears, to attempt
to justify her infidelity. `What is your wish, then?' cried I.
`I wish to die,' she answered, `if you will not give me back that
heart, without which it is impossible to endure life.' `Take my
life too, then, faithless girl!' I exclaimed, in vain
endeavouring to restrain my tears; `take my life also! it is the
sole sacrifice that remains for me to make, for my heart has
never ceased to be thine.'
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