| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: and copies of communications which had passed between him and the
Jesuits. These were at once seized, and though not containing
one expression which could be construed as treasonable, were,
from expectations they set forth of seeing catholicity re-
established in England, considered by undiscerning judges, proofs
of the statements made by Oates.
On the strength of his discovery, Oates hastened to Sir
Edmondbury Godfrey, and swore false informations; becoming aware
of which, Coleman, conscious of his innocence, delivered himself
up, in hopes of meeting a justice never vouchsafed him.
The Privy council now sat morning and evening, in order to
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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: Hercules' struggle with and victory over Death--links
on to the descent of the Sun into the underworld, and its
long and doubtful strife with the forces of winter; and
the cleansing of the stables of Augeas (5) has the same
signification. It appears in fact that the stables of Augeas
was another name for the sign of Capricorn through which
the Sun passes at the Winter solstice[1]--the stable of course
being an underground chamber--and the myth was that
there, in this lowest tract and backwater of the Ecliptic
all the malarious and evil influences of the sky were collected,
and the Sungod came to wash them away (December was the
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