| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Cavalry General by Xenophon: serviceable fighting men.[6]
[5] [{khresima}] L.D. For the {upomnema} itself cf. "Cyrop." VI. ii.
32.
[6] Or, "thus at a trifling outlay he will be able to render so many
non-efficients useful." Al. "make the articles as good as new."
But if any one is disposed to dwell on the amount of trouble it will
cost him, if he is required to devote himself to horsemanship so
assiduously, let him console himself with the reflection that the
pains and labours undergone by any man in training for a gymnastic
contest are far larger and more formidable than any which the severest
training of the horseman will involve; and for this reason, that the
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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 Road to Oz by L. Frank Baum: "You must all do exactly what I do," ordered the captain; so the
shaggy man pounded the drum with his knees, and so did Dorothy and so
did Button-Bright. The boy wanted to keep on pounding it with his
little fat knees, because he liked the sound of it; but the captain
stopped him. Toto couldn't pound the drum with his knees and he
didn't know enough to wag his tail against it, so Dorothy pounded the
drum for him and that made him bark, and when the little dog barked
the fox-captain scowled.
The golden curtains drew back far enough to make an opening, through
which marched the captain with the others.
The broad, long room they entered was decorated in gold with
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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 The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Cather: Unfortunately, Sir Hugh was not always discreet in his remarks to
his servants."
"Captain Gresham, Lady Ellingham, and Miss Ellingham,"
announced a servant, appearing at the door.
There was a murmur in the hall, and MacMaster greeted the
smiling Captain and his aunt as he bowed himself out.
To all intents and purposes the Marriage of Phaedra was
already entombed in a vague continent in the Pacific, somewhere
on the other side of the world.
A Wagner Matinee
I received one morning a letter, written in pale ink on
The Troll Garden and Selected Stories |
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 The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: have to suffer many thrusts and blows on that account from everything
that ventures to oppose and prevent the fulfillment of the two
petitions that precede.
For no one believes how the devil opposes and resists them, and cannot
suffer that any one teach or believe aright. And it hurts him beyond
measure to suffer his lies and abominations, that have been honored
under the most specious pretexts of the divine name, to be exposed, and
to be disgraced himself, and, besides, be driven out of the heart, and
suffer such a breach to be made in his kingdom. Therefore he chafes and
rages as a fierce enemy with all his power and might, and marshals all
his subjects, and, in addition enlists the world and our own flesh as
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