| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 6. [56] Thesauri ecclesie, unde Pape dat indulgentias, neque satis
nominati sunt neque cogniti apud populum Christi.
7. [57] Temporales certe non esse patet, quod non tam facile eos
profundunt, sed tantummodo colligunt multi concionatorum.
8. [58] Nec sunt merita Christi et sanctorum, quia hec semper sine
Papa operantur gratiam hominis interioris et crucem, mortem
infernumque exterioris.
9. [59] Thesauros ecclesie s. Laurentius dixit esse pauperes
ecclesie, sed locutus est usu vocabuli suo tempore.
10. [60] Sine temeritate dicimus claves ecclesie (merito Christi
donatas) esse thesaurum istum.
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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 The Koran: for Satan made seemly to them their works, and turned them from the
way, sagacious though they were!
And Korah and Pharaoh and Haman- Moses did come to them with
manifest signs, but they were too big with pride in the earth,
although they could not outstrip us!
And each of them we seized in his sin; and of them were some against
whom we sent a sandstorm; and of them were some whom the noise seized;
and of them were some with whom we cleaved the earth open; and of them
were some we drowned: God would not have wronged them, but it was
themselves they wronged.
The likeness of those who take, beside God, patrons is as the
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