| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: GEN 7:9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and
the female, as God had commanded Noah.
GEN 7:10 And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the
flood were upon the earth.
GEN 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month,
the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of
the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.
GEN 7:12 And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.
GEN 7:13 In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and
Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah's wife, and the three wives of his
sons with them, into the ark;
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe: what kind of guide we had got who would venture to bring us that
way in such a severe season, and told us it was surprising we were
not all devoured. When we told them how we placed ourselves and
the horses in the middle, they blamed us exceedingly, and told us
it was fifty to one but we had been all destroyed, for it was the
sight of the horses which made the wolves so furious, seeing their
prey, and that at other times they are really afraid of a gun; but
being excessively hungry, and raging on that account, the eagerness
to come at the horses had made them senseless of danger, and that
if we had not by the continual fire, and at last by the stratagem
of the train of powder, mastered them, it had been great odds but
Robinson Crusoe |
| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: and the English law of descent. I have explained the reasons why
it was impossible ever to establish a powerful aristocracy in
America; these reasons existed with less force to the south-west
of the Hudson. In the South, one man, aided by slaves, could
cultivate a great extent of country: it was therefore common to
see rich landed proprietors. But their influence was not
altogether aristocratic as that term is understood in Europe,
since they possessed no privileges; and the cultivation of their
estates being carried on by slaves, they had no tenants depending
on them, and consequently no patronage. Still, the great
proprietors south of the Hudson constituted a superior class,
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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 Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: All this was gone, vanished into the past, wiped out by
the torches and bullets and hatred of these hideous and
degenerate men. With a stifled sob, and a little
shudder, Jane Clayton turned back into her tent and
sought the pile of unclean blankets which were her bed.
Throwing herself face downward upon them she sobbed
forth her misery until kindly sleep brought her, at
least temporary, relief.
And while she slept a figure stole from the tent that
stood to the right of hers. It approached the sentry
before the doorway and whispered a few words in the
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar |
