| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: Again, may he be killed,-how he planned! Then he looked; then he
frowned and scowled; then he retreated and was big with pride and
said, 'This is only magic exhibited! this is only mortal speech!'- I
will broil him in hell-fire! and what shall make thee know what
hell-fire is? It will not leave and will not let alone. It scorches
the flesh; over it are nineteen (angels).
We have made only angels guardians of the fire, and we have only
made their number a trial to those who misbelieve; that those who have
been given the Book may be certain, and that those who believe may
be increased in faith; and that those who have been given the Book and
the believers may not doubt; and that those in whose hearts is
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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 Where There's A Will by Mary Roberts Rinehart: of that time the place was being successfully conducted and could
show that it hadn't lost money, the entire property became his
for keeps. If he failed it was to be sold and the money given to
charity.
You would have to know Richard Carter to understand the
excitement the will caused. Most of us, I reckon, like the sort
of person we've never dared to be ourselves. The old doctor had
gone to bed at ten o'clock all his life and got up at seven, and
so he had a sneaking fondness for the one particular grandson who
often didn't go to bed at all. Twice to my knowledge when he was
in his teens did Dicky Carter run away from school, and twice his
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