| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Hamlet by William Shakespeare: Let not the Royall Bed of Denmarke be
A Couch for Luxury and damned Incest.
But howsoeuer thou pursuest this Act,
Taint not thy mind; nor let thy Soule contriue
Against thy Mother ought; leaue her to heauen,
And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge,
To pricke and sting her. Fare thee well at once;
The Glow-worme showes the Matine to be neere,
And gins to pale his vneffectuall Fire:
Adue, adue, Hamlet: remember me.
Enter.
Hamlet |
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 Wife, et al by Anton Chekhov: always bring in an income."
And pictures came crowding on his imagination, each more gracious
and poetical than the last. And in all these pictures he saw
himself well-fed, serene, healthy, felt warm, even hot! Here,
after eating a summer soup, cold as ice, he lay on his back on
the burning sand close to a stream or in the garden under a
lime-tree. . . . It is hot. . . . His little boy and girl are
crawling about near him, digging in the sand or catching
ladybirds in the grass. He dozes sweetly, thinking of nothing,
and feeling all over that he need not go to the office today,
tomorrow, or the day after. Or, tired of lying still, he goes to
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