| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Son of Tarzan by Edgar Rice Burroughs: "I have found her, and--HIM!"
"Where is he? Where are they?" she demanded.
"Out there at the edge of the jungle. He wouldn't come to
you in his savage leopard skin and his nakedness--he sent me
to fetch him civilized clothing."
She clapped her hands in ecstasy, and turned to run toward
the bungalow. "Wait!" she cried over her shoulder. "I have all
his little suits--I have saved them all. I will bring one to you."
Tarzan laughed and called to her to stop.
"The only clothing on the place that will fit him," he said,
"is mine--if it isn't too small for him--your little boy has
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Parmenides by Plato: 'that,' and 'this,' and 'these,' and the like, and is an attribute of
'this'; for the one, or the others than the one, could not have been spoken
of, nor could any attribute or relative of the one that is not have been or
been spoken of, nor could it have been said to be anything, if it did not
partake of 'some,' or of the other relations just now mentioned.
True.
Being, then, cannot be ascribed to the one, since it is not; but the one
that is not may or rather must participate in many things, if it and
nothing else is not; if, however, neither the one nor the one that is not
is supposed not to be, and we are speaking of something of a different
nature, we can predicate nothing of it. But supposing that the one that is
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: institute or exact such services. For it is necessary that the
doctrine of Christian liberty be preserved in the churches,
namely, that the bondage of the Law is not necessary to
justification, as it is written in the Epistle to the
Galatians, 5, 1: Be not entangled again with the yoke of
bondage. It is necessary that the chief article of the Gospel
be preserved, to wit, that we obtain grace freely by faith in
Christ, and not for certain observances or acts of worship
devised by men.
What, then, are we to think of the Sunday and like rites in
the house of God? To this we answer that it is lawful for
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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 Tono Bungay by H. G. Wells: proprietor.
"I played 'em off one against the other," said my uncle. I took
his point in an instant. He had gone to each of them in turn and
said the others had come in.
"I put up four hundred pounds," said my uncle, "myself and my
all. And you know--"
He assumed a brisk confidence. "I hadn't five hundred pence. At
least--"
For a moment he really was just a little embarrassed. "I DID" he
said, "produce capital. You see, there was that trust affair of
yours--I ought, I suppose--in strict legality--to have put that
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