| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: up steam.
Three months before, such direct intervention on the part of
Germany would have passed almost without protest; but the hour was
now gone by. Becker's conduct, equally timid and rash, equally
inconclusive and offensive, had forced the other nations into a
strong feeling of common interest with Mataafa. Even had the
German demands been moderate, de Coetlogon could not have forgotten
the night of the TAUMUALUA, nor how Mataafa had relinquished, at
his request, the attack upon the German quarter. Blacklock, with
his driver of a captain at his elbow, was not likely to lag behind.
And Mataafa having communicated Knappe's letter, the example of the
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes: or a lie. All of us know full well the truth." Then the king
bids his barons lead his son away, which they do at once in
execution of his command: they led away Meleagant. But it was
not necessary to use force to induce Lancelot to withdraw, for
Meleagant might have harmed him grievously, before he would have
sought to defend himself. Then the king says to his son: "So
help me God, now thou must make peace and surrender the Queen.
Thou must cease this quarrel once for all and withdraw thy
claim." "That is great nonsense you have uttered! I hear you
speak foolishly. Stand aside! Let us fight, and do not mix in
our affairs!" But the king says he will take a hand, for he
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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 The Koran: at.
Thus have we sent down manifest signs; for, verily, God guides
whom He will.
Verily, those who believe, and those who are Jews, and the Sabaeans,
and the Christians, and the Magians, and those who join other gods
with God, verily, God will decide between them on the resurrection
day; verily, God is witness over all.
Do they not see that God, whosoever is in the heavens adores Him,
and whosoever is in the earth, and the sun, and the moon, and the
stars, and the mountains, and the beasts, and many among men, though
many a one deserves the torments?
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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 Silas Marner by George Eliot: "Eh, my child, he won't know anything about it," said Silas;
"gentlefolks didn't ever go up the Yard. But happen somebody can
tell me which is the way to Prison Street, where the jail is.
I know the way out o' that as if I'd seen it yesterday."
With some difficulty, after many turnings and new inquiries, they
reached Prison Street; and the grim walls of the jail, the first
object that answered to any image in Silas's memory, cheered him
with the certitude, which no assurance of the town's name had
hitherto given him, that he was in his native place.
"Ah," he said, drawing a long breath, "there's the jail, Eppie;
that's just the same: I aren't afraid now. It's the third turning
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