| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: Proverbs 30: 13 There is a generation, Oh how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
Proverbs 30: 14 There is a generation whose teeth are as swords, and their great teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.
Proverbs 30: 15 The horseleech hath two daughters: 'Give, give.' There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four that say not: 'Enough':
Proverbs 30: 16 The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that saith not: 'Enough.'
Proverbs 30: 17 The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young vultures shall eat it.
Proverbs 30: 18 There are three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not:
Proverbs 30: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a young woman.
Proverbs 30: 20 So is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith: 'I have done no wickedness.'
Proverbs 30: 21 For three things the earth doth quake, and for four it cannot endure:
Proverbs 30: 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a churl when he is filled with food;
Proverbs 30: 23 For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Tales of Unrest by Joseph Conrad: through the door of the storeroom, congregated round the grave,
pointed understandingly at the cross, and generally made themselves
at home.
"I don't like those chaps--and, I say, Kayerts, they must be from the
coast; they've got firearms," observed the sagacious Carlier.
Kayerts also did not like those chaps. They both, for the first time,
became aware that they lived in conditions where the unusual may be
dangerous, and that there was no power on earth outside of themselves
to stand between them and the unusual. They became uneasy, went in and
loaded their revolvers. Kayerts said, "We must order Makola to tell
them to go away before dark."
Tales of Unrest |
