The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley: The distilled liquor of addle eggs.
Pyropathy.
As successfully employed by the old inquisitors to cure the malady
of thought, and now by the Persian Mollahs to cure that of
rheumatism.
Geopathy, or burying him.
Atmopathy, or steaming him.
Sympathy, after the method of Basil Valentine his Triumph of
Antimony, and Kenelm Digby his Weapon-salve, which some call a hair
of the dog that bit him.
Hermopathy, or pouring mercury down his throat to move the animal
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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 Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: stand still to listen to the music.
Well, he played and played until, by-and-by, the door opened, and
out came a serving-man. "Ho, piper!" said he, "would you like to
earn good wages for your playing?"
"Yes," said the travelling companion, "I would, for that is why I
came hither."
"Then follow me," said the servant, and thereupon the travelling
companion tucked away his pipe and entered, with the other at his
heels.
The house-servant led the way from one room to another, each
grander than the one they left behind, until at last he came to a
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