| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from 1492 by Mary Johntson: little ships and a few score seamen and offers himself to
furnish one of the ships.' ''
``With Martin Alonso Pinzon's help, I will!''
`` `Never,' said I to their majesties, `was so huge a possible
gain matched against so small a sending forth! And as
for this Genoese who truly hath given and gives and will
give his life for his vision, saith not Scripture that a laborer
is worthy of his hire?' At which the Queen said with
decision, `We will do it, Don Luis! And now go and find
Master Christopherus and comfort him, whose heart must
be heavy, and indeed mine,' she saith, `was heavy when he
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: He must, too, be placed on guard against a specific, lurking peril
which, though it will never engulf the whole race, may impose
monstrous and unguessable horrors upon certain venturesome members
of it.
It is for this latter reason that I urge, with all the
force of my being, final abandonment of all the attempts at unearthing
those fragments of unknown, primordial masonry which my expedition
set out to investigate.
Assuming that I was sane and awake,
my experience on that night was such as has befallen no man before.
It was, moreover, a frightful confirmation of all I had sought
Shadow out of Time |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Deuteronomy 34: 9 And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses.
Deuteronomy 34: 10 And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face;
Deuteronomy 34: 11 in all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;
Deuteronomy 34: 12 and in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua 1: 1 NOW IT came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying:
Joshua 1: 2 'Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Joshua 1: 3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke unto Moses.
Joshua 1: 4 From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
Joshua 1: 5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
The Tanach |
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 In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: and opening above upon a woody valley: a little French fort, now
disused and deserted, overhangs the valley and the inlet. Atuona
itself, at the head of the next bay, is framed in a theatre of
mountains, which dominate the more immediate settling of Taahauku
and give the salient character of the scene. They are reckoned at
no higher than four thousand feet; but Tahiti with eight thousand,
and Hawaii with fifteen, can offer no such picture of abrupt,
melancholy alps. In the morning, when the sun falls directly on
their front, they stand like a vast wall: green to the summit, if
by any chance the summit should be clear - water-courses here and
there delineated on their face, as narrow as cracks. Towards
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