| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: would not that any man should know it.
MAR 9:31 For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of
man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and
after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.
MAR 9:32 But they understood not that saying, and were afraid to ask
him.
MAR 9:33 And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked
them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
MAR 9:34 But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed
among themselves, who should be the greatest.
MAR 9:35 And he sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them,
King James Bible |
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 An Old Maid by Honore de Balzac: his; not a woman, not a friend came near to dry his tears; they
dropped into the Sarthe. If the gorgeous Suzanne had happened that
way, how many young miseries might have been born of the meeting! for
the two would surely have loved each other.
She did come, however. Suzanne's ambition was early excited by the
tale of a strange adventure which had happened at the tavern of the
More,--a tale which had taken possession of her childish brain. A
Parisian woman, beautiful as the angels, was sent by Fouche to
entangle the Marquis de Montauran, otherwise called "The Gars," in a
love-affair (see "The Chouans"). She met him at the tavern of the More
on his return from an expedition to Mortagne; she cajoled him, made
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