| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Pupil by Henry James: "Let the Devil take her!" Ulick snapped; so that Pemberton could
see that they had not only lost their amiability but had ceased to
believe in themselves. He could also see that if Mrs. Moreen was
trying to get people to take her children she might be regarded as
closing the hatches for the storm. But Morgan would be the last
she would part with.
One winter afternoon - it was a Sunday - he and the boy walked far
together in the Bois de Boulogne. The evening was so splendid, the
cold lemon-coloured sunset so clear, the stream of carriages and
pedestrians so amusing and the fascination of Paris so great, that
they stayed out later than usual and became aware that they should
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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: mountains and rivers, and of every fruit has He placed therein two
kinds. He makes the night cover the day;- verily, in that are signs
unto a people who reflect.
And on the earth are neighbouring portions, and gardens of grapes
and corn and palms growing together (from one root) and not growing
together; they are watered with one water, yet we distinguish one over
the other as food;- verily, in that are signs unto a people who have
sense.
And if thou shouldst wonder, wondrous is their speech: 'What! when
we have become dust, shall we really then be created anew?
These are they who disbelieve in their Lord, and these are they with
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