| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: affairs!-verily, what ye are threatened with is surely true!
And, verily, the judgment will surely take place!
By the heaven possessed of paths! verily, ye are at variance in what
ye say!
He is turned from it who is turned.
Slain be the liars, who are heedless in a flood (of ignorance).
They will ask, 'When is the day of judgment The day when at the fire
they shall be tried.-'Taste your trial! this is what ye wished to
hasten on!'
Verily, the pious are in gardens and springs, taking what their Lord
brings them. Verily, they before that did well. But little of the
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Figure in the Carpet by Henry James: Corvick almost groaned. "Oh you know, I don't put them back to
back that way; it's the infancy of art! But he gives me a pleasure
so rare; the sense of" - he mused a little - "something or other."
I wondered again. "The sense, pray, of want?"
"My dear man, that's just what I want YOU to say!"
Even before he had banged the door I had begun, book in hand, to
prepare myself to say it. I sat up with Vereker half the night;
Corvick couldn't have done more than that. He was awfully clever -
I stuck to that, but he wasn't a bit the biggest of the lot. I
didn't allude to the lot, however; I flattered myself that I
emerged on this occasion from the infancy of art. "It's all
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