| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: than waited on her two mistresses, who were accustomed to spend their
time in dressing and waiting upon each other. Since the sale of the
business to Jean Violette, the horse and cabriolet used by Phileas,
and kept at the Hotel de la Poste, had been relinquished and sold.
At the moment when Phileas reached his house after the Giguet meeting,
his wife, already informed of the resolutions passed, had put on her
boots and shawl and was preparing to go to her father; for she felt
very sure that Madame Marion would, on that same evening, make her
certain overtures relating to Simon and Cecile. After telling his wife
of Charles Keller's death, Phileas asked her opinion with an artless
"What do you think of that, wife?" which fully pictured his habit of
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: humanitarians cross themselves before this spirit, CET ESPRIT
FATALISTE, IRONIQUE, MEPHISTOPHELIQUE, as Michelet calls it, not
without a shudder. But if one would realize how characteristic is
this fear of the "man" in the German spirit which awakened Europe
out of its "dogmatic slumber," let us call to mind the former
conception which had to be overcome by this new one--and that it
is not so very long ago that a masculinized woman could dare,
with unbridled presumption, to recommend the Germans to the
interest of Europe as gentle, goodhearted, weak-willed, and
poetical fools. Finally, let us only understand profoundly enough
Napoleon's astonishment when he saw Goethe it reveals what had
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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 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: force in the dark. We could not fight, could not plan, could do nothing save
hold our hands and wait. And week by week, as certain as the rising of the
sun, came the notification and death of some person, man or woman, innocent of
evil, but just as much killed by us as though we had done it with our own
hands. A word from Mr. Hale and the slaughter would have ceased. But he
hardened his heart and waited, the lines deepening, the mouth and eyes growing
sterner and firmer, and the face aging with the hours. It is needless for me
to speak of my own suffering during that frightful period. Find here the
letters and telegrams of the M. of M., and the newspaper accounts, etc., of
the various murders.
You will notice also the letters warning Mr. Hale of certain machinations 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 Salome by Oscar Wilde: IOKANAAN, le prophete
LE JEUNE SYRIEN, capitaine de la garde
TIGELLIN, un jeune Romain
UN CAPPADOCIEN
UN NUBIEN
PREMIER SOLDAT
SECOND SOLDAT
LE PAGE D'HERODIAS
DES JUIFS, DES NAZAREENS, etc.
UN ESCLAVE
NAAMAN, le bourreau
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