| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from King James Bible: with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the
people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall
fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before
him.
JOS 6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto
them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
JOS 6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and
let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
JOS 6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people,
that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: attribute of God and the luminiferous ether only. This important
distinction between ubiquity and omnipresence was not clear to the
mediaeval Church and there was much bloodshed about it. Certain
Lutherans, who affirmed the presence everywhere of Christ's body were
known as Ubiquitarians. For this error they were doubtless damned,
for Christ's body is present only in the eucharist, though that
sacrament may be performed in more than one place simultaneously. In
recent times ubiquity has not always been understood -- not even by
Sir Boyle Roche, for example, who held that a man cannot be in two
places at once unless he is a bird.
UGLINESS, n. A gift of the gods to certain women, entailing virtue
The Devil's Dictionary |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Pair of Blue Eyes by Thomas Hardy: 'Don't be flurried,' Knight continued. 'So long as we stay above
this block we are perfectly safe. Wait a moment whilst I consider
what we had better do.'
He turned his eyes to the dizzy depths beneath them, and surveyed
the position of affairs.
Two glances told him a tale with ghastly distinctness. It was
that, unless they performed their feat of getting up the slope
with the precision of machines, they were over the edge and
whirling in mid-air.
For this purpose it was necessary that he should recover the
breath and strength which his previous efforts had cost him. So
A Pair of Blue Eyes |
