| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Numbers 21: 8 And the LORD said unto Moses: 'Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole; and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he seeth it, shall live.'
Numbers 21: 9 And Moses made a serpent of brass, and set it upon the pole; and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he looked unto the serpent of brass, he lived.
Numbers 21: 10 And the children of Israel journeyed, and pitched in Oboth.
Numbers 21: 11 And they journeyed from Oboth, and pitched at Ije-abarim, in the wilderness which is in front of Moab, toward the sun-rising.
Numbers 21: 12 From thence they journeyed, and pitched in the valley of Zered.
Numbers 21: 13 From thence they journeyed, and pitched on the other side of the Arnon, which is in the wilderness, that cometh out of the border of the Amorites. --For Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites;
Numbers 21: 14 wherefore it is said in the book of the Wars of the LORD: Vaheb in Suphah, and the valleys of Arnon,
Numbers 21: 15 And the slope of the valleys that inclineth toward the seat of Ar, and leaneth upon the border of Moab.--
Numbers 21: 16 And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'
Numbers 21: 17 Then sang Israel this song: Spring up, O well--sing ye unto it--
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Little Britain by Washington Irving: particular respect for three or four high-backed claw-footed
chairs, covered with tarnished brocade, which bear the marks
of having seen better days, and have doubtless figured in some
of the old palaces of Little Britain. They seem to me to keep
together, and to look down with sovereign contempt upon
their leathern-bottomed neighbors: as I have seen decayed
gentry carry a high head among the plebeian society with which
they were reduced to associate. The whole front of my sitting-
room is taken up with a bow-window, on the panes of which
are recorded the names of previous occupants for many
generations, mingled with scraps of very indifferent
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne: Pue, who made investigations a century later, believed -- and one
of his recent successors in office, moreover, faithfully believes
-- that Pearl was not only alive, but married, and happy, and
mindful of her mother; and that she would most joyfully have
entertained that sad and lonely mother at her fireside.
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The Scarlet Letter |
