| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: always important post of chief armorer, while Peter the
Hermit, the last of the five cut-throats whom Norman of
Torn had bested that day, six years before, in the hut
of Father Claude, had become majordomo of the great
castle of Torn, which post included also the vital func-
tions of quartermaster and commissary.
The old man of Torn attended to the training of serf
and squire in the art of war, for it was ever necessary
to fill the gaps made in the companies, due to their
constant encounters upon the highroad and their bat-
tles at the taking of some feudal castle; in which they
The Outlaw of Torn |
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 Koran: your offences and make you enter with a noble entrance.
And do not covet that by which God has preferred one of you over
another. The men shall have a portion of what they earn, and the women
a portion of what they earn; ask God for His grace, verily, God
knows all.
To every one have we appointed kinsfolk as heirs of what parents and
relatives and those with whom ye have joined right hands leave; so
give them their portion, for, verily, God is over all a witness.
Men stand superior to women in that God hath preferred some of
them over others, and in that they expend of their wealth: and the
virtuous women, devoted, careful (in their husbands) absence, as God
The Koran |
