| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 34: 31 And ye My sheep, the sheep of My pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord GOD.'
Ezekiel 35: 1 Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me, saying:
Ezekiel 35: 2 'Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it,
Ezekiel 35: 3 and say unto it: Thus saith the Lord GOD: Behold, I am against thee, O mount Seir, and I will stretch out My hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate.
Ezekiel 35: 4 I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35: 5 Because thou hast had a hatred of old, and hast hurled the children of Israel unto the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;
Ezekiel 35: 6 therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee; surely thou hast hated thine own blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.
Ezekiel 35: 7 Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.
Ezekiel 35: 8 And I will fill his mountains with his slain; in thy hills and in thy valleys and in all thy streams shall they fall that are slain with the sword.
Ezekiel 35: 9 I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return; and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 35: 10 Because thou hast said: These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Manon Lescaut by Abbe Prevost: the livelong night in watching over her as she slept, and praying
Heaven to refresh her with soft and undisturbed repose. `You can
bear witness, just and all-seeing God I to the fervour and
sincerity of those prayers, and Thou alone knowest with what
awful rigour they were rejected.'
"You will excuse me, if I now cut short a story which it
distresses me beyond endurance to relate. It is, I believe, a
calamity without parallel. I can never cease to deplore it. But
although it continues, of course, deeply and indelibly impressed
on my memory, yet my heart seems to shrink within me each time
that I attempt the recital.
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave by Frederick Douglass: worse than before--the thought was truly a horrible
one, and one which it was not easy to overcome.
The case sometimes stood thus: At every gate
through which we were to pass, we saw a watchman
--at every ferry a guard--on every bridge a sentinel--
and in every wood a patrol. We were hemmed in
upon every side. Here were the difficulties, real or
imagined--the good to be sought, and the evil to be
shunned. On the one hand, there stood slavery, a
stern reality, glaring frightfully upon us,--its robes
already crimsoned with the blood of millions, and
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave |
