| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell: of the city they had brought into being. Atlanta was again the
center of activities for a wide region, as it had been before its
destruction, and the town was receiving a great influx of new
citizens, both welcome and unwelcome.
Invading Carpetbaggers made Atlanta their headquarters and on the
streets they jostled against representatives of the oldest families
in the South who were likewise newcomers in the town. Families
from the country districts who had been burned out during Sherman's
march and who could no longer make a living without the slaves to
till the cotton had come to Atlanta to live. New settlers were
coming in every day from Tennessee and the Carolinas where the hand
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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 The Tanach: Ezekiel 16: 27 Behold, therefore I have stretched out My hand over thee, and have diminished thine allowance, and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee, the daughters of the Philistines, that are ashamed of thy lewd way.
Ezekiel 16: 28 Thou hast played the harlot also with the Assyrians, without having enough; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet thou wast not satisfied.
Ezekiel 16: 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy harlotry with the land of traffic, even with Chaldea; and yet thou didst not have enough herewith.
Ezekiel 16: 30 How weak is thy heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of a wanton harlot;
Ezekiel 16: 31 in that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thy lofty place in every street; and hast not been as a harlot that enhanceth her hire.
Ezekiel 16: 32 Thou wife that committest adultery, that takest strangers instead of thy husband--
Ezekiel 16: 33 to all harlots gifts are given; but thou hast given thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hast bribed them to come unto thee from every side in thy harlotries.
Ezekiel 16: 34 And the contrary is in thee from other women, in that thou didst solicit to harlotry, and wast not solicited; and in that thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, thus thou art contrary.
Ezekiel 16: 35 Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word of the LORD!
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