| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs: stairs announced the coming of men--several of them. Bar-
ney heard the rattle of accouterments--the clank of a scab-
bard--the scraping of gun butts against the walls. The
Austrians were coming!
He looked about. There was no way of escape except the
door and the skylight, and the door was impossible.
Quickly he tilted the cot against the door, wedging its
legs against a crack in the floor--that would stop them for a
minute or two. then he wheeled the dresser beneath the sky-
light and, placing the chair on top of it, scrambled to the
seat of the latter. His head was at the height of the sky-
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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 Before Adam by Jack London: on his arboreal way.
And as I watched him I felt in my own being, in my very
muscles themselves, the surge and thrill of desire to
go leaping from bough to bough; and I felt also the
guarantee of the latent power in that being and in
those muscles of mine. And why not? Little boys watch
their fathers swing axes and fell trees, and feel in
themselves that some day they, too, will swing axes and
fell trees. And so with me. The life that was in me
was constituted to do what my father did, and it
whispered to me secretly and ambitiously of aerial
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