| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: We know what they say; nor art thou over them one to compel.
Wherefore remind, by the Koran, him who fears the threat.
THE CHAPTER OF THE SCATTERERS
(LI. Mecca.)
IN the name of the merciful and compassionate God.
By the scatterers who scatter! and by those pregnant with their
burden! and by those running on easily! and by the distributors of
affairs!-verily, what ye are threatened with is surely true!
And, verily, the judgment will surely take place!
By the heaven possessed of paths! verily, ye are at variance in what
ye say!
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Two good friends had Hiawatha,
Singled out from all the others,
Bound to him in closest union,
And to whom he gave the right hand
Of his heart, in joy and sorrow;
Chibiabos, the musician,
And the very strong man, Kwasind.
Straight between them ran the pathway,
Never grew the grass upon it;
Singing birds, that utter falsehoods,
Story-tellers, mischief-makers,
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