| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Dracula by Bram Stoker: "Our dear Madam Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes have
been where we were blinded. Now we are on the track once again,
and this time we may succeed. Our enemy is at his most helpless.
And if we can come on him by day, on the water, our task will be over.
He has a start, but he is powerless to hasten, as he may not leave
this box lest those who carry him may suspect. For them to suspect
would be to prompt them to throw him in the stream where he perish.
This he knows, and will not. Now men, to our Council of War,
for here and now, we must plan what each and all shall do."
"I shall get a steam launch and follow him," said Lord Godalming.
"And I, horses to follow on the bank lest by chance he land,"
Dracula |
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 Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: children on your knees; think not it is only the rustling of the soft
draped curtains, or the whistling of the wind, you hear. Listen! May it
not be the far off cry of those your sword governs, creeping towards you
across wide oceans till it pierces even into your inmost sanctuary?
Listen!
"For the womanhood of a dominant people has not accomplished all its labour
when it has borne its children and fed them at its breast: there cries to
it also from over seas and across continents the voice of the child-
peoples--'Mother-heart, stand for us!' It would be better for you that
your wombs should be barren and that your race should die out; than that
you should listen, and give no answer.'"
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