| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Euthydemus by Plato: He assented.
Or when neither of us is speaking of the same thing? For then neither of
us says a word about the thing at all?
He granted that proposition also.
But when I describe something and you describe another thing, or I say
something and you say nothing--is there any contradiction? How can he who
speaks contradict him who speaks not?
Here Ctesippus was silent; and I in my astonishment said: What do you
mean, Dionysodorus? I have often heard, and have been amazed to hear, this
thesis of yours, which is maintained and employed by the disciples of
Protagoras, and others before them, and which to me appears to be quite
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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 Koran: profit of the same.'
They will ask thee what they shall expend in alms: say, 'The
surplus.' Thus does God manifest to you His signs; haply ye may
reflect on this world and the next! They will ask thee about
orphans: say, 'To do good to them is best.' But if ye interfere with
them- they are your brethren, and God knows the evildoer from the well
doer; and if God will He will surely trouble you. Verily, God is
mighty, wise.
Wed not with idolatrous women until they believe, for surely a
believing handmaid is better than an idolatrous woman, even though she
please you. And wed not to idolatrous men until they believe, for a
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