| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: should be given like what ye are given.' Or would they dispute with
you before your Lord, say, 'Grace is in the hand of God, He gives it
to whom he pleases, for God both comprehends and knows. He specially
favours with his mercy whom he pleases, for God is Lord of mighty
grace.
And of the people of the Book, there are some of them who, if thou
entrust them with a talent give it back to you; and some of them, if
thou entrust them with a dinar, he will not give it back to thee
except so long as thou dost stand over him. That is because they
say, We owe no duty to the Gentiles;' but they tell a lie against God,
the while they know.
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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 Edingburgh Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson: It is true that the over-population was at least as
dense in the epoch of lords and ladies, and that now-a-
days some customs which made Edinburgh notorious of yore
have been fortunately pretermitted. But an aggregation
of comfort is not distasteful like an aggregation of the
reverse. Nobody cares how many lords and ladies, and
divines and lawyers, may have been crowded into these
houses in the past - perhaps the more the merrier. The
glasses clink around the china punch-bowl, some one
touches the virginals, there are peacocks' feathers on
the chimney, and the tapers burn clear and pale in the
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