| 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: wait."
Joan de Tany looked on in silence. Nor did she urge
him to remain, as he raised her hand to his lips in
farewell. So Norman of Torn rode out of the courtyard;
and as his men fell in behind him under the first rays
of the drawing day, the daughter of De Tany watched
them through the gate, and a great light broke upon
her, for what she saw was the same as she had seen a
few days since when she had turned in her saddle to
watch the retreating forms of the cut-throats of Torn
as they rode on after halting her father's party.
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 Polity of Athenians and Lacedaemonians by Xenophon: Athenian democracy to compel her allies to voyage to Athens in order
to have their cases tried.[41] On the other hand, it is easy to reckon
up what a number of advantages the Athenian People derive from the
practice impugned. In the first place, there is the steady receipt of
salaries throughout the year[42] derived from the court fees.[43]
Next, it enables them to manage the affairs of the allied states while
seated at home without the expense of naval expeditions. Thirdly, they
thus preserve the partisans of the democracy, and ruin her opponents
in the law courts. Whereas, supposing the several allied states tried
their cases at home, being inspired by hostility to Athens, they would
destroy those of their own citizens whose friendship to the Athenian
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