| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Great Big Treasury of Beatrix Potter by Beatrix Potter: to the snores. They were very
loud indeed, but seemed quite natural.
Mr. Tod turned his back towards
the bed, and undid the window. It
creaked; he turned round with a
jump. Tommy Brock, who had
opened one eye--shut it hastily.
The snores continued.
Mr. Tod's proceedings were
peculiar, and rather difficult (because
the bed was between the window
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Hated Son by Honore de Balzac: had felt the mysterious correspondences between his emotions and the
movements of the ocean. The divining of the thoughts of matter, a
power with which his occult knowledge had invested him, made this
phenomenon more eloquent to him than to all others. During the fatal
night when he was taken to see his mother for the last time, the ocean
was agitated by movements that to him were full of meaning. The
heaving waters seemed to show that the sea was working intestinally;
the swelling waves rolled in and spent themselves with lugubrious
noises like the howling of a dog in distress. Unconsciously, Etienne
found himself saying:--
"What does it want of me? It quivers and moans like a living creature.
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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 Woman and Labour by Olive Schreiner: Individual women might sometimes, and even often, become the warrior chief
of a tribe; the King of Ashantee might train his terrible regiment of
females; and men might now and again plant and weave for their children:
but in the main, and in most societies, the division of labour was just,
natural, beneficial; and it was inevitable that such a division should take
place. Were today a band of civilised men, women, and infants thrown down
absolutely naked and defenceless in some desert, and cut off hopelessly
from all external civilised life, undoubtedly very much the old division of
labour would, at least for a time, reassert itself; men would look about
for stones and sticks with which to make weapons to repel wild beasts and
enemies, and would go a-hunting meat and fighting savage enemies and tend
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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 King James Bible: he would send forth labourers into his harvest.
LUK 10:3 Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.
LUK 10:4 Carry neither purse, nor scrip, nor shoes: and salute no man
by the way.
LUK 10:5 And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to
this house.
LUK 10:6 And if the son of peace be there, your peace shall rest upon
it: if not, it shall turn to you again.
LUK 10:7 And in the same house remain, eating and drinking such things
as they give: for the labourer is worthy of his hire. Go not from house
to house.
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