| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Reign of King Edward the Third by William Shakespeare: For faults against themselves give evidence;
Lust is fire, and men like lanthornes show
Light lust within them selves, even through them selves.
Away, loose silks of wavering vanity!
Shall the large limit of fair Brittain
By me be overthrown, and shall I not
Master this little mansion of my self?
Give me an Armor of eternal steel!
I go to conquer kings; and shall I not then
Subdue my self? and be my enemy's friend?
It must not be.--Come, boy, forward, advance!
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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 Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini: monsieur, and go at once - go before I remember that it may be
dangerous even to have talked to you and not give information. Go!"
He turned on his heel to reenter his cottage, and a wave of
hopelessness swept over Andre-Louis.
But in a second it was gone. The man must be compelled, and he had
the means. He bethought him of a pistol pressed upon him by Le
Chapelier at the moment of his leaving Rennes, a gift which at the
time he had almost disdained. True, it was not loaded, and he had
no ammunition. But how was Fresnel to know that?
He acted quickly. As with his right hand he pulled it from his
pocket, with his left he caught the ferryman by the shoulder, and
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