| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: therewith, and their sides and their backs!- 'This is what ye stored
up for yourselves, taste then what ye stored up!'
Verily, the number of months with God is twelve months in God's
Book, on the day when He created the heavens and the earth; of these
are four that are sacred; that is the subsisting religion. Then do not
wrong yourselves therein, but fight the idolaters one and all, as they
fight you one and all, and know that God is with those who fear.
Verily, putting off is but an increase in misbelief to lead astray
therewith those who misbelieve. They make it lawful one year, but they
make it unlawful another year, that they may come to an
understanding as to the number which God has made sacred, and make
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: the land, and rate of the tithes, to Elinor herself,
who had heard so much of it from Colonel Brandon,
and heard it with so much attention, as to be entirely
mistress of the subject.
One question after this only remained undecided,
between them, one difficulty only was to be overcome.
They were brought together by mutual affection,
with the warmest approbation of their real friends;
their intimate knowledge of each other seemed to make
their happiness certain--and they only wanted something
to live upon. Edward had two thousand pounds, and Elinor
Sense and Sensibility |
