The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: were not such measures taken against the real Maid of Orleans,
who is mentioned in so many public documents, and who took no
pains to hide herself?"
There is yet another document bearing on this case, drawn from
the accounts of the auditor of the Orleans estate, in the year
1444, which we will here translate. "An island on the River Loire
is restored to Pierre du Lis, knight, 'on account of the
supplication of the said Pierre, alleging that for the acquittal
of his debt of loyalty toward our Lord the King and M. the Duke
of Orleans, he left his country to come to the service of the
King and M. the Duke, accompanied by his sister, Jeanne the Maid,
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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 The Tanach: 2_Kings 14: 18 Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
2_Kings 14: 19 And they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem; and he fled to Lachish; but they sent after him to Lachish, and slew him there.
2_Kings 14: 20 And they brought him upon horses; and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David.
2_Kings 14: 21 And all the people of Judah took Azariah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.
2_Kings 14: 22 He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.
2_Kings 14: 23 In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.
2_Kings 14: 24 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.
2_Kings 14: 25 He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath unto the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of the LORD, the God of Israel, which He spoke by the hand of His servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath-hepher.
2_Kings 14: 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel, that it was very bitter; for there was none shut up nor left at large, neither was there any helper for Israel.
2_Kings 14: 27 And the LORD said not that He would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven; but He saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash.
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