| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: upright upon a straight path?
Say, 'It is He who produced you and made for you hearing and sight
and hearts'-little is it that ye give thanks.
Say, 'It is He who sowed you in the earth, and unto Him shall ye
be gathered!'
They say, 'When shall this threat be, if ye do speak the truth?'
Say, 'The knowledge is only with God; and I am but a plain warner!'
And when they see it nigh, sorry shall be the faces of those who
misbelieve; and it shall be said, 'This is that for which ye used to
call!'
Say, 'Have ye considered, whether God destroy me and those with
 The Koran |
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 Odyssey by Homer: He grieves continually about your never having come home, and
suffers more and more as he grows older. As for my own end it
was in this wise: heaven did not take me swiftly and painlessly
in my own house, nor was I attacked by any illness such as those
that generally wear people out and kill them, but my longing to
know what you were doing and the force of my affection for
you--this it was that was the death of me.' {93}
"Then I tried to find some way of embracing my poor mother's
ghost. Thrice I sprang towards her and tried to clasp her in my
arms, but each time she flitted from my embrace as it were a
dream or phantom, and being touched to the quick I said to her,
 The Odyssey |