| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Caesar's Commentaries in Latin by Julius Caesar: impedimentis amissis profugisset, non mediocrem sibi diligentiam
adhibendam intellegebat. Itaque re frumentaria provisa, auxiliis
equitatuque comparato, multis praeterea viris fortibus Tolosa et Carcasone
et Narbone, quae sunt civitates Galliae provinciae finitimae, ex his
regionibus nominatim evocatis, in Sotiatium fines exercitum introduxit.
Cuius adventu cognito Sotiates magnis copiis coactis, equitatuque, quo
plurimum valebant, in itinere agmen nostrum adorti primum equestre
proelium commiserunt, deinde equitatu suo pulso atque insequentibus
nostris subito pedestres copias, quas in convalle in insidiis
conlocaverant, ostenderunt. Hi nostros disiectos adorti proelium
renovarunt.
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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 Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: "You didn't leave much of it," laughed Florence, as she produced
the basket from under the seat.
While they ate, the short twilight shaded and gloom filled the
hollows. Madeline saw the first star, a faint, winking point of
light. The sky had now changed to a hazy gray. Madeline saw it
gradually clear and darken, to show other faint stars. After
that there was perceptible deepening of the gray and an enlarging
of the stars and a brightening of new-born ones. Night seemed to
come on the cold wind. Madeline was glad to have the robes close
around her and to lean against Florence. The hollows were now
black, but the tops of the foothills gleamed pale in a soft
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