| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from 'Twixt Land & Sea by Joseph Conrad: did not communicate with the other two, and could only be
approached by a passage inside the house. Thus it had a privacy
which made it a convenient place for a maiden's meditations without
words, and also for the discourses, apparently without sense,
which, passing between a young man and a maid, become pregnant with
a diversity of transcendental meanings.
This north verandah was embowered with climbing plants. Freya,
whose room opened out on it, had furnished it as a sort of boudoir
for herself, with a few cane chairs and a sofa of the same kind.
On this sofa she and Jasper sat as close together as is possible in
this imperfect world where neither can a body be in two places at
'Twixt Land & Sea |
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 Faraday as a Discoverer by John Tyndall: of producing motion has been augmented by the increase of the
distance. These remarks apply to all bodies, whether they be
sensible masses or molecules.
Of the inner quality that enables matter to attract matter we know
nothing; and the law of conservation makes no statement regarding
that quality. It takes the facts of attraction as they stand, and
affirms only the constancy of working-power. That power may exist
in the form of MOTION; or it may exist in the form of FORCE, with
distance to act through. The former is dynamic energy, the latter
is potential energy, the constancy of the sum of both being affirmed
by the law of conservation. The convertibility of natural forces
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