| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Lily of the Valley by Honore de Balzac: pleasure the most virtuous woman in the world will feel when she finds
a course where strict obedience to duty and the satisfaction of her
wishes are combined.
Nullified, as it were, by illness, the count no longer oppressed his
wife or his household, the countess then became her natural self; she
busied herself with my affairs and showed me a thousand kindnesses.
With what joy I discovered in her mind a thought, vaguely conceived
perhaps, but exquisitely expressed, namely, to show me the full value
of her person and her qualities and make me see the change that would
come over her if she lived understood. This flower, kept in the cold
atmosphere of such a home, opened to my gaze, and to mine only; she
The Lily of the Valley |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own
nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
LEV 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
LEV 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that were before you.
LEV 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even
the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
LEV 18:30 Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not
any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you,
and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the LORD your God.
King James Bible |
