| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: by the watery moonlight he noticed an odd high monolith in the
middle of that central court, and saw that something was tied
to it. And when after getting a telescope from the captain's cabin
he saw that that bound thing was a sailor in the silk robes of
Oriab, head downward and without any eyes, he was glad that a
rising breeze soon took the ship ahead to more healthy parts of
the sea.
The next day they spoke with a ship with violet sails
bound for Zar, in the land of forgotten dreams, with bulbs of
strange coloured lilies for cargo. And on the evening of the eleventh
day they came in sight of the isle of Oriab with Ngranek rising
 The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
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 Smalcald Articles by Dr. Martin Luther: of you, for ye are false penitents; so are these [the rest]
false saints [or hypocrites], and all of you on either side
need the forgiveness of sins, because neither of you know what
true sin is not to say anything about your duty to repent of
it and shun it. For no one of you is good; you are full of
unbelief, stupidity, and ignorance of God and God's will. For
here He is present of whose fulness have all we received, and
grace for grace, John 1, 16, and without Him no man can be
just before God. Therefore, if you wish to repent, repent
aright- your penance will not accomplish anything [is
nothing]. And you hypocrites, who do not need repentance, you
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