| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 4: 19 And Lamech took unto him two wives; the name of one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Genesis 4: 20 And Adah bore Jabal; he was the father of such as dwell in tents and have cattle.
Genesis 4: 21 And his brother's name was Jubal; he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.
Genesis 4: 22 And Zillah, she also bore Tubal-cain, the forger of every cutting instrument of brass and iron; and the sister of Tubal-cain was Naamah.
Genesis 4: 23 And Lamech said unto his wives: Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech; for I have slain a man for wounding me, and a young man for bruising me;
Genesis 4: 24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
Genesis 4: 25 And Adam knew his wife again; and she bore a son, and called his name Seth: 'for God hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel; for Cain slew him.'
Genesis 4: 26 And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enosh; then began men to call upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 5: 1 This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, in the likeness of God made He him;
Genesis 5: 2 male and female created He them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 5: 3 And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Gobseck by Honore de Balzac: dutifulness worthy of all praise, and he is extremely good to his
brother and sister.--But however admirable HIS behavior may be," the
Vicomtesse added with a shrewd expression, "so long as his mother
lives, any family would take alarm at the idea of intrusting a
daughter's fortune and future to young Restaud."
"I overheard a word now and again in your talk with Mlle. de
Grandlieu," cried the friend of the family, "and it made me anxious to
put in a word of my own.--I have won, M. le Comte," he added, turning
to his opponent. "I shall throw you over and go to your niece's
assistance."
"See what it is to have an attorney's ears!" exclaimed the Vicomtesse.
Gobseck |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Twelve Stories and a Dream by H. G. Wells: "Legerdemain?" he asked. "Mechanical? Domestic?"
"Anything amusing?" said I.
"Um!" said the shopman, and scratched his head for a moment as if
thinking. Then, quite distinctly, he drew from his head a glass ball.
"Something in this way?" he said, and held it out.
The action was unexpected. I had seen the trick done at entertainments
endless times before--it's part of the common stock of conjurers--
but I had not expected it here.
"That's good," I said, with a laugh.
"Isn't it?" said the shopman.
Gip stretched out his disengaged hand to take this object and found
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