| 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: their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are
glad.
HAB 1:16 Therefore they sacrifice unto their net, and burn incense unto
their drag; because by them their portion is fat, and their meat
plenteous.
HAB 1:17 Shall they therefore empty their net, and not spare
continually to slay the nations?
HAB 2:1 I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will
watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am
reproved.
HAB 2:2 And the LORD answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In Darkest England and The Way Out by General William Booth: comfort, were it a thousand times greater than it is. We propose to
secure a tract of land in one of these countries, prepare it for
settlement, establish in it authority, govern it by equitable laws,
assist it in times of necessity, settling it gradually with a prepared
people, and so create a home for these destitute multitudes.
The Scheme, in its entirety, may aptly be compared to A Great Machine,
foundationed in the lowest slums and purlieus of our great towns and
cities, drawing up into its embrace the depraved and destitute of all
classes; receiving thieves, harlots, paupers, drunkards, prodigals,
all alike, on the simple conditions of their being willing to work and
to conform to discipline. Drawing up these poor outcasts, reforming
In Darkest England and The Way Out |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pathology of Lying, Etc. by William and Mary Healy: passed through a sickly childhood and had been most irregularly
brought up on account of the illnesses of her mother. She was
not known as a liar when younger. Her short school record showed
nothing of value for diagnosis. What happened to this girl was
no great exception; among these people, we know from their own
accounts, free and easy sex relationships are common. We are
advised that it was long ago known that this girl was going with
bad companions.
In this case we advised gynecological and other medical treatment
and segregation in a reformatory or industrial school. The young
woman could be regarded as nothing else than a dangerous person
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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 Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: deep water, and began the most dangerous and exasperating of all
salmon-tactics, moving around in slow circles and shaking his head
from side to side, with sullen pertinacity. This is called
"jigging," and unless it can be stopped, the result is fatal.
I could not stop it. That salmon was determined to jig. He knew
more than I did.
The canoe followed him down the pool. He jigged away past all
three of the inlets of the Patapedia, and at last, in the still,
deep water below, after we had laboured with him for half an hour,
and brought him near enough to see that he was immense, he calmly
opened his mouth and the fly came back to me void. That was a sad
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