| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy: ought, of course, with the connexions Papa had, to be able to get
an appointment for my son-in-law. But as it is I have not been
able to do anything, and have brought them all to this--as you
see.'
 'Yes, yes,' said Kasatsky, lowering his head.  'And how is it,
Pashenka--do you take part in Church life?'
 'Oh, don't speak of it.  I am so bad that way, and have neglected
it so!  I keep the fasts with the children and sometimes go to
church, and then again sometimes I don't go for months.  I only
send the children.'
 'But why don't you go yourself?'
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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 Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: For a few minutes the horse fought and kicked to
gain his liberty, but with his head held to the earth he
was as powerless in the hands of the boy as a baby
would have been.  Then he sank panting and exhausted
into mute surrender. 
 "Well done!" cried one of the knights.  "Simon de
Montfort himself never mastered a horse in better or-
der, my boy.  Who be thou?"
 In an instant the lad was upon his feet his eyes
searching for the speaker.  The horse, released, sprang
up also, and the two stood--the handsome boy and the
   The Outlaw of Torn |