| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: send for the merchant with the sick daughter. She interested him
in that she presented a distraction, and because both she and her
father considered him a saint whose prayers were efficacious.
Outwardly he disavowed that idea, but in the depths of his soul
he considered it to be true.
He was often amazed that this had happened, that he, Stepan
Kasatsky, had come to be such an extraordinary saint and even a
worker of miracles, but of the fact that he was such there could
not be the least doubt. He could not fail to believe in the
miracles he himself witnessed, beginning with the sick boy and
ending with the old woman who had recovered her sight when he had
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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 Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson: saw some one pass her with a chess-board on the holy day. Some sang
Scottish psalms. Many went to service, and in true Scottish fashion
came back ill pleased with their divine. 'I didna think he was an
experienced preacher,' said one girl to me.
Is was a bleak, uncomfortable day; but at night, by six bells,
although the wind had not yet moderated, the clouds were all wrecked
and blown away behind the rim of the horizon, and the stars came out
thickly overhead. I saw Venus burning as steadily and sweetly across
this hurly-burly of the winds and waters as ever at home upon the
summer woods. The engine pounded, the screw tossed out of the water
with a roar, and shook the ship from end to end; the bows battled
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