| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 42: 14 When the priests enter in, then shall they not go out of the holy place into the outer court, but there they shall lay their garments wherein they minister, for they are holy; and they shall put on other garments, and shall approach to that which pertaineth to the people.'
Ezekiel 42: 15 Now when he had made an end of measuring the inner house, he brought me forth by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east, and measured it round about.
Ezekiel 42: 16 He measured the east side with the measuring reed, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel 42: 17 He measured the north side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed round about.
Ezekiel 42: 18 He measured the south side, five hundred reeds, with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42: 19 He turned about to the west side, and measured five hundred reeds with the measuring reed.
Ezekiel 42: 20 He measured it by the four sides; it had a wall round about, the length five hundred, and the breadth five hundred, to make a separation between that which was holy and that which was common.
Ezekiel 43: 1 Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east;
Ezekiel 43: 2 and, behold, the glory of the God of Israel came from the way of the east; and His voice was like the sound of many waters; and the earth did shine with His glory.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: scription, so I continued, till the other day, when
you read me your memoirs. I hardly knew, at the
time, whether to thank you or not for the sight of
them, when I reflected that it was still dangerous,
in Massachusetts, for honest men to tell their names!
They say the fathers, in 1776, signed the Declaration
of Independence with the halter about their necks.
You, too, publish your declaration of freedom with
danger compassing you around. In all the broad lands
which the Constitution of the United States over-
shadows, there is no single spot,--however narrow or
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: excellence. Others came, the notorious evil-doers of humanity, who
made a law of the savage maxim that might is right.
We are the larvae with the changing skins, the ugly caterpillars of
a society that is slowly, very slowly, wending its way to the
triumph of right over might. When will this sublime metamorphosis
be accomplished? To free ourselves from those wild-beast
brutalities, must we wait for the ocean-plains of the southern
hemisphere to flow to our side, changing the face of continents and
renewing the glacial period of the Reindeer and the Mammoth?
Perhaps, so slow is moral progress.
True, we have the bicycle, the motor-car, the dirigible airship and
The Life of the Spider |
