| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Danny's Own Story by Don Marquis: red beard, and his arms stretched out, holding to
the canvas and looking at me strange and wild.
Then he moved his hand up and down at me, and
he says:
"If she's fool enough to love you, treat her well--
treat her well. For if you don't, you can never
run away from the hell you'll carry in your own
heart."
And he kind of doubled up and pitched forward
when he said that, and if I hadn't ketched him
he would of fell right acrost the fire. He was
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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 Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: reflected back and attributed to Jesus. It is of course
impossible that Jesus should have predicted with such
definiteness his approaching death; nor is it very likely that he
entertained any hope of being raised from the grave "on the third
day." To a man in that age and country, the conception of a
return from the lower world of shades was not a difficult one to
frame; and it may well be that Jesus' sense of his own exalted
position was sufficiently great to inspire him with the
confidence that, even in case of temporary failure, Jehovah would
rescue him from the grave and send him back with larger powers to
carry out the purpose of his mission. But the difficulty of
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
