| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: come out of her. And he came out the same hour.
ACT 16:19 And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was
gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace
unto the rulers,
ACT 16:20 And brought them to the magistrates, saying, These men, being
Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city,
ACT 16:21 And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive,
neither to observe, being Romans.
ACT 16:22 And the multitude rose up together against them: and the
magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.
ACT 16:23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: runner, a cock-fight, an apprehension in a cupboard in
Amsterdam, and a last step into the air off his own
greatly-improved gallows drop, brought the career of
Deacon William Brodie to an end. But still, by the
mind's eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a
mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate's
supper-room to a thieves' ken, and pickeering among the
closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.
Or where the Deacon is out of favour, perhaps some
memory lingers of the great plagues, and of fatal houses
still unsafe to enter within the memory of man. For in
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Madam How and Lady Why by Charles Kingsley: after you and I are dead and gone. Most patient indeed is Madam
How. She does not mind the least seeing her own work destroyed;
she knows that it must be destroyed. There is a spell upon her,
and a fate, that everything she makes she must unmake again: and
yet, good and wise woman as she is, she never frets, nor tires,
nor fudges her work, as we say at school. She takes just as much
pains to make an acorn as to make a peach. She takes just as much
pains about the acorn which the pig eats, as about the acorn which
will grow into a tall oak, and help to build a great ship. She
took just as much pains, again, about the acorn which you crushed
under your foot just now, and which you fancy will never come to
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from Bab:A Sub-Deb, Mary Roberts Rinehart by Mary Roberts Rinehart: So I told him, and he understood perfectly, although I did not say
that I had already plited my troth.
"Of course," he said. "If that fails there is another method of
aranging things, although you may not care to have the Funeral
Baked Meats set fourth to grace the Marriage Table. If she refuses
me, we might become engaged. You and I."
To proposals in one day. Ye gods!
I was obliged therfore to tell him I was already engaged, and he
looked very queer, especialy when I told him to whom it was.
"Pup!" he said, in a manner which I excused because of his natural
feelings at being preceded. "And of course this is the real thing?"
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