| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare: Fair, kind, and true, have often liv'd alone,
Which three till now, never kept seat in one.
CVI
When in the chronicle of wasted time
I see descriptions of the fairest wights,
And beauty making beautiful old rime,
In praise of ladies dead and lovely knights,
Then, in the blazon of sweet beauty's best,
Of hand, of foot, of lip, of eye, of brow,
I see their antique pen would have express'd
Even such a beauty as you master now.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne: leaves, tied round with a tendril; - on opening it, I saw an S.
marked in one of the corners.
She had since that, she told me, stray'd as far as Rome, and walk'd
round St. Peter's once, - and return'd back; - that she found her
way alone across the Apennines; - had travell'd over all Lombardy,
without money, - and through the flinty roads of Savoy without
shoes: - how she had borne it, and how she had got supported, she
could not tell; - but GOD TEMPERS THE WIND, said Maria, TO THE
SHORN LAMB.
Shorn indeed! and to the quick, said I: and wast thou in my own
land, where I have a cottage, I would take thee to it, and shelter
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| 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: past. Of earthly minds there were some from the winged, starheaded,
half-vegetable race of palaeogean Antarctica; one from the reptile
people of fabled Valusia; three from the furry pre-human Hyperborean
worshippers of Tsathoggua; one from the wholly abominable Tcho-Tchos;
two from the arachnid denizens of earth's last age; five from
the hardy coleopterous species immediately following mankind,
to which the Great Race was some day to transfer its keenest minds
en masse in the face of horrible peril; and several from different
branches of humanity.
I talked with the mind of Yiang-Li, a
philosopher from the cruel empire of Tsan-Chan, which is to come
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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 King James Bible: into an house.
MAR 3:20 And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could
not so much as eat bread.
MAR 3:21 And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on
him: for they said, He is beside himself.
MAR 3:22 And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath
Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
MAR 3:23 And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables,
How can Satan cast out Satan?
MAR 3:24 And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom
cannot stand.
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