| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: life believed.
ACT 13:49 And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the
region.
ACT 13:50 But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and
the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and
Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.
ACT 13:51 But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and
came unto Iconium.
ACT 13:52 And the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy
Ghost.
ACT 14:1 And it came to pass in Iconium, that they went both together
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Breaking Point by Mary Roberts Rinehart: was more hopeless than that.
David, watching him, waited until Harrison had gone, and went
directly to the subject.
"Have you ever stopped to think what these last months have meant
to Elizabeth? Her own worries, and always this infernal town,
talking, talking. The child's pride's been hurt, as well as her
heart."
"I thought I'd better not go into that until after - until later," he
explained. "The other thing was wrong. I knew it the moment I saw
Beverly and I didn't go back again. What was the use? But - you
saw her face, David. I think she doesn't even care enough to hate me."
The Breaking Point |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Facino Cane by Honore de Balzac: Rothschild; in short, you shall have the fabulous wealth of the
/Arabian Nights/."
The man was mad, I thought; but in his voice there was a potent
something which I obeyed. I allowed him to lead, and he went in the
direction of the Fosses de la Bastille, as if he could see; walking
till he reached a lonely spot down by the river, just where the bridge
has since been built at the junction of the Canal Saint-Martin and the
Seine. Here he sat down on a stone, and I, sitting opposite to him,
saw the old man's hair gleaming like threads of silver in the
moonlight. The stillness was scarcely troubled by the sound of the
far-off thunder of traffic along the boulevards; the clear night air
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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 Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx: Napoleon. A whole people, that imagines it has imparted to itself
accelerated powers of motion through a revolution, suddenly finds itself
transferred back to a dead epoch, and, lest there be any mistake
possible on this head, the old dates turn up again; the old calendars;
the old names; the old edicts, which long since had sunk to the level of
the antiquarian's learning; even the old bailiffs, who had long seemed
mouldering with decay. The nation takes on the appearance of that crazy
Englishman in Bedlam, who imagines he is living in the days of the
Pharaohs, and daily laments the hard work that he must do in the
Ethiopian mines as gold digger, immured in a subterranean prison, with a
dim lamp fastened on his head, behind him the slave overseer with a long
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