| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: be remembered.
The three Adepts at Magic, who had formerly ruled the
Flatheads wisely and considerately, went with Princess
Ozma and her people, for they had promised Ozma to stay
on the mountain and again see that the laws were
enforced.
Glinda had been told all about the curious Flatheads
and she had consulted with the Wizard and formed a plan
to render them more intelligent and agreeable.
When the party reached the mountain Ozma and Dorothy
showed them how to pass around the invisible wall --
Glinda of Oz |
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 The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: the liquid that you know the one only as the reflection of the other.
Mirrored in its glassy surface appears everything around it.
As you peer in, far down you see a tiny bit of sky, as deep as the
blue is high above, across which slowly sail the passing clouds;
then nearer stand the trees, arching overhead, as if bending to
catch glimpses of themselves in that other world below; and then,
nearer yet--yourself.
Emblem of the spirit of man is this little pool to Far Oriental eyes.
Subtile as the soul is the incomprehensible water; so responsive to
light that it remains itself invisible; so clear that it seems
illusion! Though portrayer so perfect of forms about it, all we know
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