| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from Captain Stormfield by Mark Twain: back?"
"Of course he does. He sets himself back to fourteen; tries it a
couple of hours, and feels like a fool; sets himself forward to
twenty; it ain't much improvement; tries thirty, fifty, eighty, and
finally ninety - finds he is more at home and comfortable at the
same old figure he is used to than any other way. Or, if his mind
begun to fail him on earth at eighty, that's where he finally
sticks up here. He sticks at the place where his mind was last at
its best, for there's where his enjoyment is best, and his ways
most set and established."
"Does a chap of twenty-five stay always twenty-five, and look it?"
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The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from The Tanach: Exodus 37: 10 And he made the table of acacia-wood: two cubits was the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.
Exodus 37: 11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereto a crown of gold round about.
Exodus 37: 12 And he made unto it a border of a hand-breadth round about, and made a golden crown to the border thereof round about.
Exodus 37: 13 And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet thereof.
Exodus 37: 14 Close by the border were the rings, the holders for the staves to bear the table.
Exodus 37: 15 And he made the staves of acacia-wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
Exodus 37: 16 And he made the vessels which were upon the table, the dishes thereof, and the pans thereof, and the bowls thereof, and the jars thereof, wherewith to pour out, of pure gold.
Exodus 37: 17 And he made the candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work made he the candlestick, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, were of one piece with it.
Exodus 37: 18 And there were six branches going out of the sides thereof: three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof;
Exodus 37: 19 three cups made like almond-blossoms in one branch, a knop and a flower; and three cups made like almond-blossoms in the other branch, a knop and a flower. So for the six branches goin 
The Tanach |
The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from Montezuma's Daughter by H. Rider Haggard: to the ground on the further side, and lay groaning. She lifted me
to my feet, or rather to my foot, for I could use but one of them,
and we stared round us. No one was to be seen, and the sound of
revelry had died away, for the crest of Popo was already red with
the sunlight and the dawn grew in the valley.
'Where to?' I said.
Now Otomie had been allowed to walk in the camp with her sister,
the wife of Guatemoc, and other Aztec ladies, and she had this gift
in common with most Indians, that where she had once passed there
she could pass again, even in the darkest night.
'To the south gate,' she whispered; 'perhaps it is unguarded now
Montezuma's Daughter |
