| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily,
shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. When,
therefore our priests were admonished concerning this sin,
Private Masses were discontinued among us, as scarcely any
Private Masses were celebrated except for lucre's sake.
Neither were the bishops ignorant of these abuses, and if they
had corrected them in time, there would now be less
dissension. Heretofore, by their own connivance, they suffered
many corruptions to creep into the Church. Now, when it is too
late, they begin to complain of the troubles of the Church,
while this disturbance has been occasioned simply by those
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: twelve:
CH1 25:14 The seventh to Jesharelah, he, his sons, and his brethren,
were twelve:
CH1 25:15 The eighth to Jeshaiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
CH1 25:16 The ninth to Mattaniah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
CH1 25:17 The tenth to Shimei, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
CH1 25:18 The eleventh to Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were
twelve:
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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 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: cleverly you write, and how beautifully, and so forth and so forth. You think
you can do newspaper work, and you want me to put you on. Well, I am sorry,
but there are no openings. If you knew how crowded--"
"But if there are no openings," she had interrupted, in turn, "how did those
who are in, get in? How am I to show that I am eligible to get in?"
"They made themselves indispensable," was the terse response. "Make yourself
indispensable."
"But how can I, if I do not get the chance?"
"Make your chance."
"But how?" she had insisted, at the same time privately deeming him a most
unreasonable man.
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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 Second Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling: fashion, over the other boys, when they came out at night to
play ball in the moonlight, or to sing the Child's Song to the
Aurora Borealis.
But at fourteen an Inuit feels himself a man, and Kotuko was
tired of making snares for wild-fowl and kit-foxes, and most
tired of all of helping the women to chew seal- and deer-skins
(that supples them as nothing else can) the long day through,
while the men were out hunting. He wanted to go into the quaggi,
the Singing-House, when the hunters gathered there for their
mysteries, and the angekok, the sorcerer, frightened them into
the most delightful fits after the lamps were put out, and you
The Second Jungle Book |
