| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Poems by Oscar Wilde: The wondrous temple and the throne
Of him who holds the awful keys!
When, bright with purple and with gold
Come priest and holy cardinal,
And borne above the heads of all
The gentle Shepherd of the Fold.
O joy to see before I die
The only God-anointed king,
And hear the silver trumpets ring
A triumph as he passes by!
Or at the brazen-pillared shrine
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 108: 6 (108:7) That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.
Psalms 108: 7 (108:8) God spoke in His holiness, that I would exult; that I would divide Shechem, and mete out the valley of Succoth.
Psalms 108: 8 (108:9) Gilead is mine, Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the defence of my head; Judah is my sceptre.
Psalms 108: 9 (108:10) Moab is my washpot; upon Edom do I cast my shoe; over Philistia do I cry aloud.
Psalms 108: 10 (108:11) Who will bring me into the fortified city? Who will lead me unto Edom?
Psalms 108: 11 (108:12) Hast not Thou cast us off, O God? and Thou goest not forth, O God, with our hosts?
Psalms 108: 12 (108:13) Give us help against the adversary; for vain is the help of man.
Psalms 108: 13 (108:14) Through God we shall do valiantly; for He it is that will tread down our adversaries.
Psalms 109: 1 For the Leader. A Psalm of David. O God of my praise, keep not silence;
Psalms 109: 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the mouth of deceit have they opened against me; they have spoken unto me with a lying tongue.
Psalms 109: 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred, and fought against me without a cause.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Glasses by Henry James: while in the air and go in for plenty of exercise. It keeps up my
general health, you know, and if that goes on improving as it has
lately done everything will soon be all right. All that was the
matter with me before--and always; it was too reckless!--was that I
neglected my general health. It acts directly on the state of the
particular organ. So I'm going three miles."
I grinned at her from the doorstep while Mrs. Meldrum's maid stood
there to admit me. "Oh I'm so glad," I said, looking at her as she
paced away with the pretty flutter she had kept and remembering the
day when, while she rejoined Lord Iffield, I had indulged in the
same observation. Her air of assurance was on this occasion not
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