| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Life of the Spider by J. Henri Fabre: As a rule, the ceiling is reached. It is twelve feet high. The
little Spider is able, therefore, as the first product of her
spinning-mill, before taking any refreshment, to obtain a line
fully twelve feet in length. And all this, the rope-maker and her
rope, was contained in the egg, a particle of no size at all. To
what a degree of fineness can the silky matter be wrought wherewith
the young Spider is provided! Our manufacturers are able to turn
out platinum-wire that can only be seen when it is made red-hot.
With much simpler means, the Spiderling draws from her wire-mill
threads so delicate that, even the brilliant light of the sun does
not always enable us to discern them.
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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 Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland by Olive Schreiner: came to him weeping; and she said, 'Did you see how some of the most
wealthy and important people got up and went out this morning? Why did you
preach such a sermon, when we were just going to have the new wing added to
our house, and you thought they were going to raise your salary? You have
not a single Boer in your congregation! Why need you say the Chartered
Company raid on Johannesburg was wrong?'
"He said, 'My wife, if I believe that certain men whom we have raised on
high, and to whom we have given power, have done a cowardly wrong, shall I
not say it?'
"And she said, 'Yes, and only a little while ago, when Rhodes was licking
the dust off the Boers' feet that he might keep them from suspecting while
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