| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: outer wrapper if nothing had come to disturb her.
Poor fool! You upholster the wires of your cage with swan's-down
and you leave the eggs imperfectly protected. The absence of the
work already executed and the hardness of the metal do not warn you
that you are now engaged upon a senseless task. You remind me of
the Pelopaeus, {21} who used to coat with mud the place on the wall
whence her nest had been removed. You speak to me, in your own
fashion, of a strange psychology which is able to reconcile the
wonders of a master craftsmanship with aberrations due to
unfathomable stupidity.
Let us compare the work of the Banded Epeira with that of the
The Life of the Spider |
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 The Tanach: 1_Kings 11: 12 Notwithstanding in thy days I will not do it, for David thy father's sake; but I will rend it out of the hand of thy son.
1_Kings 11: 13 Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to thy son; for David My servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.'
1_Kings 11: 14 And the LORD raised up an adversary unto Solomon, Hadad the Edomite; he was of the king's seed in Edom.
1_Kings 11: 15 For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom--
1_Kings 11: 16 for Joab and all Israel remained there six months, until he had cut off every male in Edom--
1_Kings 11: 17 that Hadad fled, he and certain Edomites of his father's servants with him, to go into Egypt; Hadad being yet a little child.
1_Kings 11: 18 And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran; and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, who gave him a house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.
1_Kings 11: 19 And Hadad found great favour in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
1_Kings 11: 20 And the sister of Tahpenes bore him Genubath his son, whom Tahpenes weaned in Pharaoh's house; and Genubath was in Pharaoh's house among the sons of Pharaoh.
1_Kings 11: 21 And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh: 'Let me depart, that I may go to mine own count 
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