| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: This primal vault was round and fully two hundred feet
across, with nothing carved upon the dark-hued stonework. The
floor was here free from anything save dust and sand, and I could
see the apertures leading upward and downward. There were no stairs
or inclines - indeed, my dreams had pictured those elder towers
as wholly untouched by the fabulous Great Race. Those who had
built them had not needed stairs or inclines.
In the dreams,
the downward aperture had been tightly sealed and nervously guarded.
Now it lay open-black and yawning, and giving forth a current
of cool, damp air. Of what limitless caverns of eternal night
Shadow out of Time |
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 Mayflower Compact: In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten,
the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereigne Lord, King James,
by the Grace of God, of Great Britaine, France, and Ireland,
King, Defender of the Faith, &c.
Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of
the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country,
a Voyage to plant the first colony in the Northerne Parts
of Virginia; doe, by these Presents, solemnly and mutually
in the Presence of God and one of another, covenant and
combine ourselves together into a civill Body Politick,
for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
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