| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Tanach: Leviticus 6: 26 (6:19) The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it; in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.
Leviticus 6: 27 (6:20) Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy; and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in a holy place.
Leviticus 6: 28 (6:21) But the earthen vessel wherein it is sodden shall be broken; and if it be sodden in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.
Leviticus 6: 29 (6:22 Every male among the priests may eat thereof; it is most holy.
Leviticus 6: 30 (6:23) And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus 7: 1 And this is the law of the guilt-offering: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7: 2 In the place where they kill the burnt-offering shall they kill the guilt-offering: and the blood thereof shall be dashed against the altar round about.
Leviticus 7: 3 And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,
Leviticus 7: 4 and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the lobe above the liver, which he shall take away by the kidneys.
Leviticus 7: 5 And the priest shall make them smoke upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD; it is a guilt-offering.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: I obey in whatsoever he may command."
"Do you mean that you are my servant and that I am your master?"
said Jacob Stuck.
"Yes; command and I obey."
"Why, then," said Jacob Stuck, "I would like you to help me out
of this desert place, if you can do so, for it is a poor spot for
any Christian soul to be."
"To hear is to obey," said the Genie, and, before Jacob Stuck
knew what had happened to him, the Genie had seized him and was
flying with him through the air swifter than the wind. On and on
he flew, and the earth seemed to slide away beneath. On and on
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from The Snow Image by Nathaniel Hawthorne: into the town, with as light a step as if his day's journey had
not already exceeded thirty miles, and with as eager an eye as if
he were entering London city, instead of the little metropolis of
a New England colony. Before Robin had proceeded far, however, it
occurred to him that he knew not whither to direct his steps; so
he paused, and looked up and down the narrow street, scrutinizing
the small and mean wooden buildings that were scattered on either
side.
"This low hovel cannot be my kinsman's dwelling," thought he,
"nor yonder old house, where the moonlight enters at the broken
casement; and truly I see none hereabouts that might be worthy of
The Snow Image |
