| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Voyage to Abyssinia by Father Lobo: deliverer. At first nothing was able to stand before the valour of
the Portuguese, the Moors were driven from one mountain to another,
and were dislodged even from those places, which it seemed almost
impossible to approach, even unmolested by the opposition of an
enemy.
These successes seemed to promise a more happy event than that which
followed them. It was now winter, a season in which, as the reader
hath been already informed, it is almost impossible to travel in
Aethiopia. The Portuguese unadvisedly engaged themselves in an
enterprise, to march through the whole country, in order to join the
Emperor, who was then in the most remote part of his dominions.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H. P. Lovecraft: Great Ones. You have dreamed too well, O wise arch-dreamer, for
you have drawn dream's gods away from the world of all men's visions
to that which is wholly yours; having builded out of your boyhood's
small fancies a city more lovely than all the phantoms that have
gone before.
"It is not well that earth's gods leave their thrones
for the spider to spin on, and their realm for the Others to sway
in the dark manner of Others. Fain would the powers from outside
bring chaos and horror to you, Randolph Carter, who are the cause
of their upsetting, but that they know it is by you alone that
the gods may be sent back to their world. In that half-waking
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath |
