| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Esther 8: 1 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy unto Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was unto her.
Esther 8: 2 And the king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it unto Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Esther 8: 3 And Esther spoke yet again before the king, and fell down at his feet, and besought him with tears to put away the mischief of Haman the Agagite, and his device that he had devised against the Jews.
Esther 8: 4 Then the king held out to Esther the golden sceptre. So Esther arose, and stood before the king.
Esther 8: 5 And she said: 'If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and the thing seem right before the king, and I be pleasing in his eyes, let it be written to reverse the letters devised by Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, which he wrote to destroy the Jews that are in all the king's provinces;
Esther 8: 6 for how can I endure to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure to see the destruction of my kindred?'
Esther 8: 7 Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew: 'Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.
Esther 8: 8 Write ye also concerning the Jews, as it liketh you, in the king's name, and seal it with the king's ring; for the writing which is written in the king's name, and sealed with the king's 
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Men of Iron by Howard Pyle: snarled. "As though ye caused me not trouble enow; and this one a
cub, looking a very boor in carriage and breeding. Mayhap the
Earl thinketh I am to train boys to his dilly-dally household
service as well as to use of arms."
"Sir," said Gascoyne, timidly, "my Lord sayeth he would have this
one entered direct as a squire of the body, so that he need not
serve in the household."
"Sayest so?" cried Sir James, harshly. "Then take thou my message
back again to thy Lord. Not for Mackworth--no, nor a better man
than he-- will I make any changes in my government. An I be set
to rule a pack of boys, I will rule them as I list, and not
Men of Iron |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Nada the Lily by H. Rider Haggard: along by a cutting wind.
Now he sprang up, huddling on his clothes and as he did so calling to
the Kaffirs who slept beneath the wagons. Presently they awoke from
the stupor which already was beginning to overcome them, and crept
out, shivering with cold and wrapped from head to foot in blankets.
"Quick! you boys," he said to them in Zulu; "quick! Would you see the
cattle die of the snow and wind? Loose the oxen from the trek-tows and
drive them in between the wagons; they will give them some shelter."
And lighting a lantern he sprang out into the snow.
At last it was done--no easy task, for the numbed hands of the Kaffirs
could scarcely loosen the frozen reims. The wagons were outspanned
Nada the Lily |
