| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Pericles by William Shakespeare: And do upon mine altar sacrifice.
There, when my maiden priests are met together,
Before the people all,
Reveal how thou at sea didst lose thy wife:
To mourn thy crosses, with thy daughter's, call
And give them repetition to the life.
Or perform my bidding, or thou livest in woe:
Do it, and happy; by my silver bow!
Awake, and tell thy dream.
 [Disappears.]
 PERICLES.
 | 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 Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: lids, sunk in the stones of the pavement, covered the cisterns of the
palace. Vitellius noticed that one of these was larger than the
others, and that when struck by his foot it had not their sonority. He
struck them all, one after another; then stamped upon the ground and
shouted:
 "I have found it! I have found the buried treasure of Herod!"
 Searching for buried treasure was a veritable mania among the Romans.
 The tetrarch swore that no treasure was hidden in that spot.
 "What is concealed there, then?" the proconsul demanded.
 "Nothing--that is, only a man--a prisoner."
 "Show him to me!"
  Herodias
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