| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: overwhelmed by force of numbers.
There was but one danger, but that was imminent and great -
Gloucester's seven hundred might be rolled up and cut to pieces in
the first encounter, and, to avoid this, it was needful to make the
surprise of their arrival as complete as possible.
The footmen, therefore, were all once more taken up behind the
riders, and Dick had the signal honour meted out to him of mounting
behind Gloucester himself. For as far as there was any cover the
troops moved slowly, and when they came near the end of the trees
that lined the highway, stopped to breathe and reconnoitre.
The sun was now well up, shining with a frosty brightness out of a
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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 Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: and to glorify the war-cry of Patriotism in defiance of the
principle of universal Brotherhood--such a Church can hardly
claim to have established the angelic character of its
mission among mankind! And if it be said--as it often
IS SAID: "Oh! but you must go back to the genuine article,
and the Church's real origin and one foundation in the
person and teaching of Jesus Christ," then indeed you
come back to the point which this book, as above, enforces:
namely, that as to the person of Jesus, there is
no CERTAINTY at all that he ever existed; and as to the teaching
credited to him, it is certain that that comes down from a
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
