| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac: good faith, as having usurped the name under which he was elected to
the Chamber,--his hatred making him take the possibility for positive
evidence.
In his heart, Desroches did not want to take charge of an affair in
which he saw not the slightest chance of success; but he showed his
lax integrity by talking over the affair with his client as if it were
an ordinary case of legal practice, instead of telling him frankly his
opinion that this pretended "case" was a mere intrigue. The number of
things done in the domain of evil by connivance in speech, without
proceeding to the actual collusion of action, are incalculable.
"In the first place," said Desroches, when the matter was all
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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 Disputation of the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences by Dr. Martin Luther: 20. [70] Sed magis tenentur omnibus oculis intendere, omnibus
auribus advertere, ne pro commissione Pape sua illi somnia
predicent.
21. [71] Contra veniarum apostolicarum veritatem qui loquitur, sit
ille anathema et maledictus.
22. [72] Qui vero, contra libidinem ac licentiam verborum
Concionatoris veniarum curam agit, sit ille benedictus.
23. [73] Sicut Papa iuste fulminat eos, qui in fraudem negocii
veniarum quacunque arte machinantur,
24. [74] Multomagnis fulminare intendit eos, qui per veniarum
pretextum in fraudem sancte charitatis et veritatis machinantur,
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