| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: messenger floated past me, on toward the Iss and Korus, for it
told me that journeying Martians were above me on that very stream.
They had eaten of this marvelous fruit which nature concentrates
within the hard shell of the sorapus nut, and having eaten had
cast the husk overboard. It could have come from no others than
the party I sought.
Quickly I abandoned all thought of the left-hand passage, and
a moment later had turned into the right. The stream soon widened,
and recurring areas of phosphorescent rock lighted my way.
The Warlord of Mars |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: his power
in the great fight with Vrtra.
He must be called to give us seed and offspring, the Thunderer
must he
moved and sped to battle.
7 He in his might, with name that lives for ever, hath far
surpassed
all human generations.
He, most heroic, hath his home with splendour, with glory and
with
riches and with valour.
The Rig Veda |
