| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 106: 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham, terrible things by the Red Sea.
Psalms 106: 23 Therefore He said that He would destroy them, had not Moses His chosen stood before Him in the breach, to turn back His wrath, lest He should destroy them.
Psalms 106: 24 Moreover, they scorned the desirable land, they believed not His word;
Psalms 106: 25 And they murmured in their tents, they hearkened not unto the voice of the LORD.
Psalms 106: 26 Therefore He swore concerning them, that He would overthrow them in the wilderness;
Psalms 106: 27 And that He would cast out their seed among the nations, and scatter them in the lands.
Psalms 106: 28 They joined themselves also unto Baal of Peor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead.
Psalms 106: 29 Thus they provoked Him with their doings, and the plague broke in upon them.
Psalms 106: 30 Then stood up Phinehas, and wrought judgment, and so the plague was stayed.
Psalms 106: 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness, unto all generations for ever.
Psalms 106: 32 They angered Him also at the waters of Meribah, and it went ill with Moses because of them;
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Firm of Nucingen by Honore de Balzac: these, all material interests lie without the range of sentiment. They
give their time, their life, their honor to a woman, and hold that
between themselves it is not the thing to meddle with bits of tissue
paper bearing the legend, 'Forgery is punishable with death.' And
equally they will take nothing from a woman. Yes, the whole thing is
debased if fusion of interests follows on fusion of souls. This is a
doctrine much preached, and very seldom practised."
"Oh, what rubbish!" cried Blondet. "The Marechal de Richelieu
understood something of gallantry, and he settled an allowance of a
thousand louis d'or on Mme. de la Popeliniere after that affair of the
hiding-place behind the hearth. Agnes Sorel, in all simplicity, took
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson: With your invidious wielding of the Scriptures?
You call to mind an eminent archangel
Who fell to make him famous. Would you fall
So far as he, to be so far remembered?
BURR
Before I fall or rise, or am an angel,
I shall acquaint myself a little further
With our new land's new language, which is not --
Peace to your dreams -- an idiom to your liking.
I'm wondering if a man may always know
How old a man may be at thirty-seven;
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