| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 24: 2 'Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure olive oil beaten for the light, to cause a lamp to burn continually.
Leviticus 24: 3 Without the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, shall Aaron order it from evening to morning before the LORD continually; it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations.
Leviticus 24: 4 He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.
Leviticus 24: 5 And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth parts of an ephah shall be in one cake.
Leviticus 24: 6 And thou shalt set them in two rows, six in a row, upon the pure table before the LORD.
Leviticus 24: 7 And thou shalt put pure frankincense with each row, that it may be to the bread for a memorial-part, even an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Leviticus 24: 8 Every sabbath day he shall set it in order before the LORD continually; it is from the children of Israel, an everlasting covenant.
Leviticus 24: 9 And it shall be for Aaron and his sons; and they shall eat it in a holy place; for it is most holy unto him of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, a perpetual due.'
Leviticus 24: 10 And the son of an Israelitish woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the children of Israel; and the son of the Israelitish woman and a man of Israel strove together in the camp.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: it persisted in its uncanny watching of the corners of the room.
When I went back to my divan, after putting a fresh log on the fire,
I was reassured. I took the precaution, and smiled at myself for
doing it, to put the fire tongs within reach of my hand. But the
cat would not let me sleep. After a time I decided that it wanted
water, and I started out in search of some, carrying the candle
without the stand. I wandered through several rooms, all closed
and dismantled, before I found a small lavatory opening off a
billiard room. The cat lapped steadily, and I filled a glass to
take back with me. The candle flickered in a sickly fashion that
threatened to leave me there lost in the wanderings of the many
The Man in Lower Ten |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Country Doctor by Honore de Balzac: bread, who sowed and reaped for us, who watched over our happiness,
who guided us through life, who ruled so kindly among us. NOW, I may
speak in his praise, and say that he never caused me the slightest
sorrow; he was good and strong and patient. Even while we were
torturing him for the sake of his health, so precious to us, 'Let it
be, children, it is all no use,' the dear lamb said, just in the same
tone of voice with which he had said, 'Everything is all right,
friends,' only a few days before. Ah! grand Dieu! a few days ago! A
few days have been enough to take away the gladness from our house and
to darken our lives, to close the eyes of the best, most upright, most
revered of men. No one could plow as he could. Night or day, he would
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