| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: ungrateful- verily, God is independent, worthy of praise!'
And when Loqman said to his son while admonishing him, 'O my boy!
associate none with God, for, verily, such association is a mighty
wrong.'-
For we have commended his parents to man; his mother bore him with
weakness upon weakness; and his weaning is in two years;-'Be
thankful to me and to thy parents; for unto me shall your journey
be. But if they strive with thee that thou shouldst associate with
me that which thou hast no knowledge of, then obey them not. But
associate with them in the world with kindness, and follow the way
of him who turns repentant unto me; then unto me is your return, and I
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Princess by Alfred Tennyson: The highest is the measure of the man,
And not the Kaffir, Hottentot, Malay,
Nor those horn-handed breakers of the glebe,
But Homer, Plato, Verulam; even so
With woman: and in arts of government
Elizabeth and others; arts of war
The peasant Joan and others; arts of grace
Sappho and others vied with any man:
And, last not least, she who had left her place,
And bowed her state to them, that they might grow
To use and power on this Oasis, lapt
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde: HESTER. And the man should be punished in the same way?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. In the same way. And the children, if there are
children, in the same way also?
HESTER. Yes, it is right that the sins of the parents should be
visited on the children. It is a just law. It is God's law.
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. It is one of God's terrible laws.
[Moves away to fireplace.]
HESTER. You are distressed about your son leaving you, Mrs.
Arbuthnot?
MRS. ARBUTHNOT. Yes.
HESTER. Do you like him going away with Lord Illingworth? Of
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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 Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: gulf had existed. Then I saw the chasm's edge, leaped frenziedly
with every ounce of strength I possessed, and was instantly engulfed
in a pandaemoniae vortex of loathsome sound and utter, materially
tangible blackness.
This is the end of my experience, so far
as I can recall. Any further impressions belong wholly to the
domain of phantasmagoria delirium. Dream, madness, and memory
merged wildly together in a series of fantastic, fragmentary delusions
which can have no relation to anything real.
There was a hideous
fall through incalculable leagues of viscous, sentient darkness,
Shadow out of Time |
