| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Koran: THE CHAPTER OF THE CONFEDERATES
(XXXIII. Medinah.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
O thou prophet! fear God and obey not the misbelievers and
hypocrites; verily, God is ever knowing, wise!
But follow what thou art inspired with from thy Lord; verily, God of
what you do is ever well aware. And rely upon God, for God is guardian
enough.
God has not made for any man two hearts in his inside; nor has He
made your wives,- whom you back away from,- your real mothers; nor has
He made your adopted sons your real sons. That is what ye speak with
The Koran |
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 Adventure by Jack London: smoke-curing had just begun--and, save for the closed eyes, all the
sullen handsomeness and animal virility of the boy, as Joan had
known it, was still to be seen in the monstrous thing that twisted
and dangled in the eddying smoke.
Nor was Joan's horror lessened by the conduct of the Poonga-Poonga
boys. On the instant they recognized the head, and on the instant
rose their wild hearty laughter as they explained to one another in
shrill falsetto voices. Gogoomy's end was a joke. He had been
foiled in his attempt to escape. He had played the game and lost.
And what greater joke could there be than that the bushmen should
have eaten him? It was the funniest incident that had come under
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