| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: Mac, I think, but not quite so good on tricks. It will be nip and
tuck."
"How about your cousin's cousin?" she asked, with bold irony.
"He hopes he won't have to take the dust," was his laughing
answer.
The next rider suffered defeat irrevocably before he had been
thirty seconds in the saddle. His mount was one of the most
cunning of the outlaw ponies of the Northwest, and it brought him
to grief by jamming his leg hard against the fence. He tried in
vain to spur the bronco into the middle of the arena, but after
it drove at a post for the third time and ground his limb against
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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 Tanach: Ezekiel 42: 2 even to the front of the length of a hundred cubits, with the door on the north, and the breadth of fifty cubits,
Ezekiel 42: 3 over against the twenty cubits which belonged to the inner court, and over against the pavement which belonged to the outer court; with gallery against gallery in three stories.
Ezekiel 42: 4 And before the chambers was a walk of ten cubits breadth inward, a way of one cubit; and their doors were toward the north.
Ezekiel 42: 5 Now the upper chambers were shorter; for the galleries took away from these, more than from the lower and the middlemost, in the building.
Ezekiel 42: 6 For they were in three stories, and they had not pillars as the pillars of the courts; therefore room was taken away from the lowest and the middlemost, in comparison with the ground. Ezekiel 42: 7 And the wall that was without by the side of the chambers, toward the outer court in front of the chambers, the length thereof was fifty cubits.
Ezekiel 42: 8 For the length of the chambers that were toward the outer court was fifty cubits; and, lo, before the temple were a hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 42: 9 And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the outer court.
Ezekiel 42: 10 In the breadth of the wall of the court toward the east, before the separate place, and before the building, there were chambers,
Ezekiel 42: 11 with a way before them; like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they, with all their goings out, and according to their fashions; and as their doors,
 The Tanach |