The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Shadow out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft: the trap-door yawned widely open. Ahead, the shelves began again,
and I glimpsed on the floor before one of them a heap very thinly
covered with dust, where a number of cases had recently fallen.
At the same moment a fresh wave of panic clutched me, though for
some time I could not discover why.
Heaps of fallen cases were
not uncommon, for all through the aeons this lightless labyrinth
had been racked by the heavings of earth and had echoed at intervals
of the deafening clatter of toppling objects. It was only when
I was nearly across the space that I realized why I shook so violently.
Not the heap, but something about the dust of the level floor
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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 Walking by Henry David Thoreau: requires in half an hour.
But the walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking
exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated
hours--as the Swinging of dumb-bells or chairs; but is itself the
enterprise and adventure of the day. If you would get exercise,
go in search of the springs of life. Think of a man's swinging
dumbbells for his health, when those springs are bubbling up in
far-off pastures unsought by him!
Moreover, you must walk like a camel, which is said to be the
only beast which ruminates when walking. When a traveler asked
Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she
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