| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: was the terminal point of our journey this day, and, as the
entire cavalcade broke into a mad gallop as soon as we
reached the level expanse of sea bottom, we were soon within
sight of our goal.
On reaching it the chariots were parked with military
precision on the four sides of the enclosure, and half a score
of warriors, headed by the enormous chieftain, and including
Tars Tarkas and several other lesser chiefs, dismounted and
advanced toward it. I could see Tars Tarkas explaining something
to the principal chieftain, whose name, by the way, was,
as nearly as I can translate it into English, Lorquas Ptomel,
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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 Koran: wherein no soul shall pay any recompense for another soul, nor shall
intercession be accepted for it, nor shall compensation be taken
from it, nor shall they be helped.
When we saved you from Pharaoh's people who sought to wreak you evil
and woe, slaughtering your sons and letting your women live; in that
was a great trial for you from your Lord. When we divided for you
the sea and saved you and drowned Pharaoh's people while ye looked on.
When we treated with Moses forty nights, then ye took the calf after
he had gone and ye did wrong. Yet then we forgave you after that;
perhaps ye may be grateful. And when we gave Moses the Scriptures
and the Discrimination; perhaps ye will be guided. When Moses said
The Koran |
