| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne: of colour in all those trees, shrubs, and plants, growing without the
life-giving heat and light of the sun. Everything seemed mixed-up and
confounded in one uniform silver grey or light brown tint like that
of fading and faded leaves. Not a green leaf anywhere, and the
flowers - which were abundant enough in the tertiary period, which
first gave birth to flowers - looked like brown-paper flowers,
without colour or scent.
My uncle Liedenbrock ventured to penetrate under this colossal grove.
I followed him, not without fear. Since nature had here provided
vegetable nourishment, why should not the terrible mammals be there
too? I perceived in the broad clearings left by fallen trees, decayed
Journey to the Center of the Earth |
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 The Koran: no ginn in your companion. He is only a warner to you before the
keen torment.'
Say, 'I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my
hire is only from God, and He is witness over all.'
Say, 'Verily, my Lord hurls forth the truth; and He well knows the
unseen.'
Say, 'The truth has come, and falsehood shall vanish and shall not
come back.'
Say, 'If I err I only err against myself; and if I am guided it is
all what my Lord inspires me; verily, He is the hearing, the nigh!'
And couldst thou see when they are scared, and there shall be no
The Koran |
