| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Concerning Christian Liberty by Martin Luther: and necessary for salvation, they contend noisily about such as
are without weight and not necessary.
How much more rightly does the Apostle Paul teach us to walk in
the middle path, condemning either extreme and saying, "Let not
him that eateth despise him that eateth not; and let not him
which eateth not judge him that eateth" (Rom. xiv. 3)! You see
here how the Apostle blames those who, not from religious
feeling, but in mere contempt, neglect and rail at ceremonial
observances, and teaches them not to despise, since this
"knowledge puffeth up." Again, he teaches the pertinacious
upholders of these things not to judge their opponents. For
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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 Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: city were wise in the primal mysteries, and faithful in keeping
the rhythms of the Great Ones as set forth in scrolls older than
the Pnakotic Manuscripts. As the ship rode past the great basalt
breakwater into the harbour the lesser noises of the city grew
manifest, and Carter saw the slaves, sailors, and merchants on
the docks. The sailors and merchants were of the strange-faced
race of the gods, but the slaves were squat, slant-eyed folk said
by rumour to have drifted somehow across or around the impassable
peaks from the valleys beyond Leng. The wharves reached wide outside
the city wall and bore upon them all manner of merchandise from
the galleys anchored there, while at one end were great piles
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