| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Mayflower Compact: for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof do enact,
constitute, and frame, such just and equall Laws, Ordinances,
Acts, Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time,
as shall be thought most meete and convenient for the
Generall Good of the Colonie; unto which we promise
all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names
at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Raigne of our
Sovereigne Lord, King James of England, France, and Ireland,
the eighteenth, and of Scotland, the fiftie-fourth,
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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 Koran: God wishes to explain to you and to guide you into the ordinances of
those who were before you, and to turn towards you, for God is
knowing, wise. God wishes to turn towards you, but those who follow
their lusts wish that ye should swerve with a mighty swerving! God
wishes to make it light for you, for man was created weak.
O ye who believe! devour not your property amongst yourselves
vainly, unless it be a merchandise by mutual consent. And do not
kill yourselves; verily, God is compassionate unto you.
But whoso does that maliciously and unjustly, we will broil him with
fire; for that is easy with God.
If ye avoid great sins from which ye are forbidden, we will cover
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson: house wherein to refresh the feebler sort.
PILGRIM'S PROGRESS.
A CAMP IN THE DARK
THE next day (Tuesday, September 24th), it was two o'clock in the
afternoon before I got my journal written up and my knapsack
repaired, for I was determined to carry my knapsack in the future
and have no more ado with baskets; and half an hour afterwards I
set out for Le Cheylard l'Eveque, a place on the borders of the
forest of Mercoire. A man, I was told, should walk there in an
hour and a half; and I thought it scarce too ambitious to suppose
that a man encumbered with a donkey might cover the same distance
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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 People That Time Forgot by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the bear make a determined effort to get at us, the rocks I had
piled as a barrier would come tumbling down about his giant
shoulders like a house of cards, and that he would walk
directly in upon us.
Ajor, having less knowledge of the effectiveness of firearms
than I, and therefore greater confidence in them, entreated me
to shoot the beast; but I knew that the chance that I could
stop it with a single shot was most remote, while that I should
but infuriate it was real and present; and so I waited for what
seemed an eternity, watching those devilish points of fire
glaring balefully at us, and listening to the ever-increasing
The People That Time Forgot |
