The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Varieties of Religious Experience by William James: and deity within me; for there is no man who can compel me to
transgress. He is an abscess on the universe who withdraws
and separates himself from the reason of our common nature,
through being displeased with the things which happen. For the
same nature produces these, and has produced thee too. And so
accept everything which happens, even if it seem disagreeable,
because it leads to this, the health of the universe and to the
prosperity and felicity of Zeus. For he would not have brought
on any man what he has brought if it were not useful for the
whole. The integrity of the whole is mutilated if thou cuttest
off anything. And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy
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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 Bucky O'Connor by William MacLeod Raine: forward toward it.
"Oh, little pardner, I'm plumb tickled to death you ain't a
ghost," he laughed.
"It is--Bucky?" The question joyfully answered itself.
"Right guess. Bucky it is."
He had hold of her hands by this time, was trying to peer down
into the happy-brown eyes he knew were scanning him. "I can't see
you yet, Curly Haid, but it's sure you, I reckon. I'll have to
pass my hand over your face the way a blind man does," he
laughed, and, greatly daring, he followed his own suggestion, and
let his fingers wander across her crisp, thick hair, down her
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