| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: summer you will begin over again. That is how things are done, my
dear fellow!"
And Prudence appeared to be enchanted with her advice, which I
refused indignantly.
Not only my love and my dignity would not let me act thus, but I
was certain that, feeling as she did now, Marguerite would die
rather than accept another lover.
"Enough joking," I said to Prudence; "tell me exactly how much
Marguerite is in need of."
"I have told you: thirty thousand francs."
"And when does she require this sum?"
Camille |
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 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: instead of a monarchic form of bourgeois government; above all, it
demanded for the bourgeoisie the lion's share of the government. As to
how this transformation was to be accomplished, the party was far from
being clear. What, however, was clear as day to it and was openly
declared at the reform banquets during the last days of Louis Philippe's
reign, was its unpopularity with the democratic middle class, especially
with the revolutionary proletariat. These pure republicans, as pure
republicans go, were at first on the very point of contenting themselves
with the regency of the Duchess of Orleans, when the February revolution
broke out, and when it gave their best known representatives a place in
the provisional government. Of course, they enjoyed from the start the
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