| 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: so unfailingly to have the aspect of memories, and when my mind
began to link them with my growing abstract disturbances - the
feeling of mnemonic restraint, the curious impressions regarding
time, and sense of a loathsome exchange with my secondary personality
of 1908-13, and, considerably later, the inexplicable loathing
of my own person.
As certain definite details began to enter
the dreams, their horror increased a thousandfold - until by October,
1915, I felt I must do something. It was then that I began an
intensive study of other cases of amnesia and visions, feeling
that I might thereby obectivise my trouble and shake clear of
Shadow out of Time |
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 King of the Golden River by John Ruskin: seemed much diminished in quantity. Yet he obeyed his friend the
dwarf and descended the other side of the mountains towards the
Treasure Valley; and as he went he thought he heard the noise of
water working its way under the ground. And when he came in sight
of the Treasure Valley, behold, a river, like the Golden River, was
springing from a new cleft of the rocks above it and was flowing in
innumerable streams among the dry heaps of red sand.
And as Gluck gazed, fresh grass sprang beside the new streams,
and creeping plants grew and climbed among the moistening soil.
Young flowers opened suddenly along the riversides, as stars leap
out when twilight is deepening, and thickets of myrtle and tendrils
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