| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 11: 1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. In the LORD have I taken refuge; how say ye to my soul: 'Flee thou! to your mountain, ye birds'?
Psalms 11: 2 For, lo, the wicked bend the bow, they have made ready their arrow upon the string, that they may shoot in darkness at the upright in heart.
Psalms 11: 3 When the foundations are destroyed, what hath the righteous wrought?
Psalms 11: 4 The LORD is in His holy temple, the LORD, His throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids try, the children of men.
Psalms 11: 5 The LORD trieth the righteous; but the wicked and him that loveth violence His soul hateth.
Psalms 11: 6 Upon the wicked He will cause to rain coals; fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Psalms 11: 7 For the LORD is righteous, He loveth righteousness; the upright shall behold His face.
Psalms 12: 1 (12:1) For the Leader; on the Sheminith. A Psalm of David. (12:2) Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 12: 2 (12:3) They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour; with flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
Psalms 12: 3 (12:4) May the LORD cut off all flattering lips, the tongue that speaketh proud things!
Psalms 12: 4 (12:5) Who have said: 'Our tongue will we make mighty; our lips are with us: who is lord over us?'
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 23. Si remissio ulla omnium omnino penarum potest alicui dari,
certum est eam non nisi perfectissimis, i.e. paucissimis, dari.
24. Falli ob id necesse est maiorem partem populi per
indifferentem illam et magnificam pene solute promissionem.
25. Qualem potestatem habet papa in purgatorium generaliter, talem
habet quilibet Episcopus et Curatus in sua diocesi et parochia
specialiter.
1. [26] Optime facit papa, quod non potestate clavis (quam nullam
habet) sed per modum suffragii dat animabus remissionem.
2. [27] Hominem predicant, qui statim ut iactus nummus in cistam
tinnierit evolare dicunt animam.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: Both impotent alike. If in one band
Collected, stood the people all, who e'er
Pour'd on Apulia's happy soil their blood,
Slain by the Trojans, and in that long war
When of the rings the measur'd booty made
A pile so high, as Rome's historian writes
Who errs not, with the multitude, that felt
The grinding force of Guiscard's Norman steel,
And those the rest, whose bones are gather'd yet
At Ceperano, there where treachery
Branded th' Apulian name, or where beyond
The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) |
