| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: a cordon of rifles, except where the bare face of the butte hung
down behind him. To attempt to scale it would have been to expose
himself as a mark for every gun to certain death.
It was now that she heard the man who seemed to be directing the
attack call out to another on his right. She was too far to make
out the words, but their effect was clear to her. He pointed to
the brow of the butte above, and a puncher in white woolen chaps
dropped back out of range and swung to the saddle upon one of the
ponies bunched in the rear. He cantered round in a wide circle
and made for the butte. His purpose was obviously to catch their
victim in the unprotected rear, and fire down upon him from
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: JOH 15:23 He that hateth me hateth my Father also.
JOH 15:24 If I had not done among them the works which none other man
did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me
and my Father.
JOH 15:25 But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled
that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
JOH 15:26 But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you
from the Father, even the Spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the
Father, he shall testify of me:
JOH 15:27 And ye also shall bear witness, because ye have been with me
from the beginning.
King James Bible |
