| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Lamentable Tragedy of Locrine and Mucedorus by William Shakespeare: Whether report guilded a worthless trunk,
Or Amadine deserved her high extolment.
KING OF VALENTIA.
See our provision be in readiness;
Collect us followers of the comeliest hue
For our chief guardians, we will thither wend:
The crystal eye of Heaven shall not thrice wink,
Nor the green Flood six times his shoulders turn,
Till we salute the Aragonian King.
Music speak loudly now, the season's apt,
For former dolours are in pleasure wrapt.
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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 God The Invisible King by H. G. Wells: as though Christ were simply an eminent but illreported and
abominably served teacher of ethics--and yet of the only right ideal
and ethics. He speaks as though religions were nothing more than
ethical movements, and as though Christianity were merely someone
remarking with a bright impulsiveness that everything was simply
horrid, and so, "Let us instal loving kindness as a cardinal axiom.
He ignores altogether the fundamental essential of religion, which
is THE DEVELOPMENT AND SYNTHESIS OF THE DIVERGENT AND CONFLICTING
MOTIVES OF THE UNCONVERTED LIFE, AND THE IDENTIFICATION OF THE
INDIVIDUAL LIFE WITH THE IMMORTAL PURPOSE OF GOD. He presents a
conception of religion relieved of its "nonsense" as the cheerful
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