| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: waiting-maid with one of the largest fortunes in the little town of
twelve hundred inhabitants.
To the great astonishment of every one, Monsieur and Madame Soudry
acknowledged as legitimate, in their marriage contract, a natural son
of the gendarme, to whom, in future, Madame Soudry's fortune was to
descend. At the time when this son was legally supplied with a mother,
he had just ended his law studies in Paris and was about to enter into
practice, with the intention of fitting himself for the magistracy.
It is scarcely necessary to remark that a mutual understanding of
twenty years had produced the closest intimacy between the families of
Gaubertin and Soudry. Both reciprocally declared themselves, to the
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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: other on the left, not a word does he utter, but a watcher is by him
ready!
And the agony of death shall come in truth!-'that is what thou didst
shun!'
And the trumpet shall be blown!-that is the threatened day!
And every soul shall come-with it a driver and a witness!
'Thou wert heedless of this, and we withdrew thy veil from thee, and
to-day is thine eyesight keen!'
And his mate shall say, 'This is what is ready for me (to attest).
'Throw into hell every stubborn misbeliever!-who forbids good, a
transgressor, a doubter! who sets other gods with God-and throw him,
The Koran |
