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: was worse, it came from a point not behind but ahead of me.
Probably
I shrieked aloud then. I have a dim picture of myself as flying
through the hellish basalt vault of the elder things, and hearing
that damnable alien sound piping up from the open, unguarded door
of limitless nether blacknesses. There was a wind, too - not merely
a cool, damp draught, but a violent, purposeful blast belching
savagely and frigidly from that abominable gulf whence the obscene
whistling came.
There are memories of leaping and lurching over
obstacles of every sort, with that torrent of wind and shrieking
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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 Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: even in 1500, ripening for the revolution of 1789, he was sensual
and, I fear, cowardly enough to hide his light, not under a bushel,
but under a dunghill; till men took him for a jester of jests; and
his great wisdom was lost to the worse and more foolish generations
which followed him, and thought they understood him.
But as for appealing to natural law for that which is good for men,
and to reason for the power of discerning that same good--if man
cannot find truth by that method, by what method shall he find it?
And thus it happened that, though these philosophers and
encyclopaedists were not men of science, they were at least the
heralds and the coadjutors of science.
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