| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: something worse than that for you, the Fire which God has promised
to those who misbelieve? an evil journey shall it be!'
O ye folk! a parable is struck out for you, so listen to it. Verily,
those on whom ye call beside God could never create a fly if they
all united together to do it, and if the fly should despoil them of
aught they could not snatch it away from it-weak is both the seeker
and the sought.
They do not value God at His true value; verily, God is powerful,
mighty.
God chooses apostles of the angels and of men; verily, God hears and
sees. He knows what is before them and what is behind them; and unto
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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 Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: confessional had taught him to understand the bitterness that the
sense of being kept outside the social pale puts into the heart of an
old maid; he therefore calculated his own treatment of Mademoiselle
Gamard very wisely. She was then about thirty-eight years old, and
still retained a few pretensions, which, in well-behaved persons of
her condition, change, rather later, into strong personal self-esteem.
The canon saw plainly that to live comfortably with his landlady he
must pay her invariably the same attentions and be more infallible
than the pope himself. To compass this result, he allowed no points of
contact between himself and her except those that politeness demanded,
and those which necessarily exist between two persons living under the
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