| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Profits of Religion by Upton Sinclair: a slick derby hat and a pair of tight gloves which made me
impotent for mischief. Thus I was taken and paraded up Fifth
Avenue, doing my part of the duties of Good Society. And all
church-members go through this same performance; the oldest and
most venerable of them steal potatoes and throw mud all week
--and then take a hot bath of repentance and put on the clean
clothing of piety. In this same way their ministers of religion
are occupied to scrub and clean and dress up their disreputable
Founder--to turn him from a proletarian rebel into a
stained-glass-window divinity.
The man who really lived, the carpenter's son, they take out and
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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 Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: envelop them in old Grecian dress, and, without playing false for a
moment to his own Christianity, seek in the writings of heathen
sages a wider and a healthier view of humanity than was afforded by
an ascetic creed.
No wonder that the appearance of "Telemaque," published in Holland
without the permission of Fenelon, delighted throughout Europe that
public which is always delighted with new truths, as long as it is
not required to practise them. To read "Telemaque" was the right
and the enjoyment of everyone. To obey it, the duty only of
princes. No wonder that, on the other hand, this "Vengeance de
peuples, lecon des rois," as M. de Lamartine calls it, was taken for
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