| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from An Open Letter on Translating by Dr. Martin Luther: have been educated in and have practiced their science since my
childhood. I recognize how broad and deep it is. They, too, know
that everything they can do, I can do. Yet they handle me like a
stranger in their discipline, these incurable fellows, as if I had
just arrived this morning and had never seen or heard what they
know and teach. How they do so brilliantly parade around with
their science, teaching me what I grew beyond twenty years ago!
To all their shouting and screaming I join the harlot in singing:
"I have known for seven years that horseshoe nails are iron."
So this can be the answer to your first question. Please do not
give these asses any other answer to their useless braying about
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: questions about the matter.
At first the old man put him off with short answers, but the
Fiddler was a master-hand at finding out anything he wanted to
know. He dinned and drummed and worried until flesh and blood
could stand it no longer. So at last the old man said that he
would show him the treasure-house where all his wealth came from,
and at that the Fiddler was tickled beyond measure.
The old man took a key from behind the door and led him out into
the garden. There in a corner by the wall was a great trap-door
of iron. The old man fitted the key to the lock and turned it. He
lifted the door, and then went down a steep flight of stone
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Koran: did disbelieve in God's signs, and kill the prophets undeservedly.
That is because they did rebel and did transgress.
They are not all alike. Of the people of the Book there is a
nation upright, reciting God's signs throughout the night, as they
adore the while. They believe in God, and in the last day, and bid
what is reasonable, and forbid what is wrong, and vie in charity;
these are among the righteous.
What ye do of good surely God will not deny, for God knows those who
fear.
Verily, those who misbelieve, their wealth is of no service to them,
nor their children either, against God; they are the fellows of the
The Koran |
