| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Call of the Canyon by Zane Grey: relieving to Carley. She had burned the candle at both ends. But the beauty
of the hills and vales, the quiet of the forest, the sight of the stars,
made it harder to forget. She had to rest. And when she rested she could
not always converse, or read, or write.
For the most part her days held variety and pleasure. The place was
beautiful, the weather pleasant, the people congenial. She motored over the
forest roads, she canoed along the margin of the lake, she played golf and
tennis. She wore exquisite gowns to dinner and danced during the evenings.
But she seldom walked anywhere on the trails and, never alone, and she
never climbed the mountains and never rode a horse.
Morrison arrived and added his attentions to those of other men. Carley
The Call of the Canyon |
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 Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: may fail; that does not so much matter; he is only the individual
representative of the glorified and composite being
who exists in the mind of the tribe (just as a present-day
King may be unworthy, but is surrounded all the same by
the agelong glamour of Royalty). "The real ,
tremendous, infallible, is somewhere far away, hidden in
clouds perhaps, on the summit of some inaccessible mountain.
If the mountain is once climbed the god will
move to the upper sky. The medicine-chief meanwhile
stays on earth, still influential. He has some connection
with the great god more intimate than that of other
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
