The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: world is.
What is true of individuals has been true of races. The most
imaginative races have proved the greatest factors in the world's
advance.
Now after this look at our own side of the world, let us turn to
the other; for it is this very psychological fact that mental
progression implies an ever-increasing individualization, and that
imagination is the force at work in the process which Far Eastern
civilization, taken in connection with our own, reveals. In doing
this, it explains incidentally its own seeming anomalies, the most
unaccountable of which, apparently, is its existence.
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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: 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.
2_Kings 14: 17 And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.
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.
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