The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: ignore the fact that strangulation pointed to FELO DE SE, and to
assume he had been murdered. Accordingly they prohibited the
surgeons from opening the body, lest examination should falsify
conclusions at which they desired to arrive. A verdict was
ultimately returned "that he was murdered by certain persons
unknown to the jurors, and that his death proceeded from
suffocation and strangling by a certain piece of linen cloth of
no value."
Occurring at such a moment, his death was at once attributed to
the papists, who, it was said, being incensed that the magistrate
had received the sworn testimonies of Oates, had sought this
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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 King James Bible: thousand sheep,
NUM 31:33 And threescore and twelve thousand beeves,
NUM 31:34 And threescore and one thousand asses,
NUM 31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had
not known man by lying with him.
NUM 31:36 And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to
war, was in number three hundred thousand and seven and thirty thousand
and five hundred sheep:
NUM 31:37 And the LORD'S tribute of the sheep was six hundred and
threescore and fifteen.
NUM 31:38 And the beeves were thirty and six thousand; of which the
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