| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Lamentations 3: 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.
Lamentations 3: 7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot go forth; He hath made my chain heavy.
Lamentations 3: 8 Yea, when I cry and call for help, He shutteth out my prayer.
Lamentations 3: 9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, He hath made my paths crooked.
Lamentations 3: 10 He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.
Lamentations 3: 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; He hath made me desolate.
Lamentations 3: 12 He hath bent His bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
Lamentations 3: 13 He hath caused the arrows of His quiver to enter into my reins.
Lamentations 3: 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.
Lamentations 3: 15 He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.
Lamentations 3: 16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, He hath made me to wallow in ashes.
 The Tanach |
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 Vicar of Tours by Honore de Balzac: These ladies belonged to the aristocratic circles of Tourainean
society, to which Mademoiselle Gamard was not admitted. Therefore the
abbe's abandonment was the more insulting, because it made her feel
her want of social value; all choice implies contempt for the thing
rejected.
"Monsieur Birotteau does not find us agreeable enough," said the Abbe
Troubert to Mademoiselle Gamard's friends when she was forced to tell
them that her "evenings" must be given up. "He is a man of the world,
and a good liver! He wants fashion, luxury, witty conversation, and
the scandals of the town."
These words of course obliged Mademoiselle Gamard to defend herself at
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