| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Macbeth by William Shakespeare: Will come, to know his Destinie.
Your Vessels, and your Spels prouide,
Your Charmes, and euery thing beside;
I am for th' Ayre: This night Ile spend
Vnto a dismall, and a Fatall end.
Great businesse must be wrought ere Noone.
Vpon the Corner of the Moone
There hangs a vap'rous drop, profound,
Ile catch it ere it come to ground;
And that distill'd by Magicke slights,
Shall raise such Artificiall Sprights,
 Macbeth |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: habebant, fuga se ad Caesarem recipiunt et demonstrant sibi praeter agri
solum nihil esse reliqui. Quibus rebus adductus Caesar non expectandum
sibi statuit dum, omnibus, fortunis sociorum consumptis, in Santonos
Helvetii pervenirent.
Flumen est Arar, quod per fines Haeduorum et Sequanorum in Rhodanum
influit, incredibili lenitate, ita ut oculis in utram partem fluat
iudicari non possit. Id Helvetii ratibus ac lintribus iunctis transibant.
Ubi per exploratores Caesar certior factus est tres iam partes copiarum
Helvetios id flumen traduxisse, quartam vero partem citra flumen Ararim
reliquam esse, de tertia vigilia cum legionibus tribus e castris profectus
ad eam partem pervenit quae nondum flumen transierat. Eos impeditos et
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