| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from An Unsocial Socialist by George Bernard Shaw: impenetrable, and the noise he made attracted the attention of
the approaching couple. He made no further effort to escape, but
threw his borrowed apron over his head and stood bolt upright
with his back against the bushes.
"What is that man doing there?" said Henrietta, stopping
mistrustfully.
Agatha laughed, and said loudly, so that he might hear: "It is
only a harmless madman that Miss Wilson employs. He is fond of
disguising himself in some silly way and trying to frighten us.
Don't be afraid. Come on."
Henrietta hung back, but her arm was linked in Agatha's, and she
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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 Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: insistence of the self-regarding impulses. It was
the consciousness of disharmony and disunity, causing
men to feel all the more poignantly the desire and the
need of reconciliation. It was a realization of union
made clear by its very loss. It assumed of course,
in a subconscious way as I have already indicated, that the
external world was the HABITAT of a mind or minds similar
to man's own; but THAT being granted, it is evident
that the particular theories current in this or that place about
the nature of the world--the theories, as we should say,
of science or theology--did not alter the general outlines
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
