| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: the people of the town but believed and feared, we would have opened
up for them blessings from the heavens and from the earth; but they
said it was a lie, so we overtook them for that which they had earned.
Were the people of these cities then secure that our violence
would not come on them by night, while they slept? were the people
of these cities secure that our violence would not come on them in the
morning whilst they played? were they secure from the craft of God.?
none feel secure from the craft of God except a people that shall
lose.
Is it not shown to those who inherit the earth after its (former)
people, that, did we please, we would smite them in their sins, and
The Koran |
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 Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: any other people. But I will reckon them as merely equal to those of
the state which has the fewest.
[18] Lit. "it is not possible to give judgment"; or, "for juries to
sit."
This being so, I maintain that it is not possible for business affairs
at Athens to stand on any very different footing from the present,
except to some slight extent, by adding here and deducting there. Any
large modification is out of the question, short of damaging the
democracy itself. No doubt many expedients might be discovered for
improving the constitution, but if the problem be to discover some
adequate means of improving the constitution, while at the same time
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