| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Child of Storm by H. Rider Haggard: know that at length everyone gets tired of standing."
"Is that why you have taken to walking, Mameena? I mean, what are you
doing here alone?"
"I? Oh, I heard that you were passing this way, and came to have a talk
with you. No, from you I cannot hide even the least bit of the truth.
I came to talk with you, but also I came to see Zikali and ask him what
a wife should do who hates her husband."
"Indeed! And what did he answer you?"
"He answered that he thought she had better run away with another man,
if there were one whom she did not hate--out of Zululand, of course,"
she replied, looking first at me and then at my wagon and the two horses
Child of Storm |
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 A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the Martians have discovered that it is an inherent property
of all light no matter from what source it emanates. They
have learned that it is the solar eighth ray which propels
the light of the sun to the various planets, and that it is
the individual eighth ray of each planet which "reflects," or
propels the light thus obtained out into space once more.
The solar eighth ray would be absorbed by the surface of
Barsoom, but the Barsoomian eighth ray, which tends to
propel light from Mars into space, is constantly streaming
out from the planet constituting a force of repulsion of
gravity which when confined is able to life enormous weights
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