| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Lemorne Versus Huell by Elizabeth Drew Stoddard: or is not, Cinderella."
"If you have ever thought of me, aunt, as an individual, you must
have seen that I am not averse to ashes."
He held my hand a moment, and then kissed me with a kiss of
appropriation.
"He is in love with you," she said, after he had gone. "I think
I know him. He has found beauty ignorant of itself; he will teach
you to develop it."
The next morning Mr. Uxbridge had an interview with Aunt Eliza
before he saw me.
When we were alone I asked him how her eccentricities affected
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians by Martin Luther: one thing He requires of you is that you believe in Christ whom He hath
sent. If in addition to faith, which comes first as the most acceptable
service unto God, you want to add laws, then you want to know that all
laws are comprehended in this short commandment, 'Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself.' "
Paul knows how to explain the law of God. He condenses all the laws of Moses
into one brief sentence. Reason takes offense at the brevity with which Paul
treats the Law. Therefore reason looks down upon the doctrine of faith and
its truly good works. To serve one another in love, i.e., to instruct the
erring, to comfort the afflicted, to raise the fallen, to help one's neighbor
in every possible way, to bear with his infirmities, to endure hardships,
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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 Macbeth by William Shakespeare: If you find any scanning errors, out and out typos, punctuation
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The Tragedie of Macbeth
Actus Primus. Scoena Prima.
Thunder and Lightning. Enter three Witches.
1. When shall we three meet againe?
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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 Vendetta by Honore de Balzac: with the roll of carriages, and the hum of beadles, sextons, and
priests. Altars were resplendent with sacramental luxury; the wreaths
of orange-flowers that crowned the figures of the Virgin were fresh.
Flowers, incense, gleaming tapers, velvet cushions embroidered with
gold, were everywhere. When the time came to hold above the heads of
Luigi and Ginevra the symbol of eternal union,--that yoke of satin,
white, soft, brilliant, light for some, lead for most,--the priest
looked about him in vain for the acolytes whose place it was to
perform that joyous function. Two of the witnesses fulfilled it for
them. The priest addressed a hasty homily to the pair on the perils of
life, on the duties they must, some day, inculcate upon their
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