| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: abysmal path? It was but a ruse to divide our numbers.
"He will have Matai Shang leave others elsewhere on some
pretext or other, and then at last he will fall upon us with his
confederates and slay us all."
"I believe you, Lakor," replied the other, "there can never be
aught else than deadly hatred between thern and First Born. And
what think you of the ridiculous matter of the light? `Let the
light shine with the intensity of three radium units for fifty
tals, and for one xat let it shine with the intensity of one radium
 The Warlord of Mars |
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 Lost Continent by Edgar Rice Burroughs: glaring at us, then like a shot she sprang into the river
and swam swiftly after us.
Victory was a length ahead of me.
"Swim for the other shore!" I called to her.
I was much impeded by my rifle, having to swim with one hand
while I clung to my precious weapon with the other. The
girl had seen the lioness take to the water, and she had
also seen that I was swimming much more slowly than she, and
what did she do? She started to drop back to my side.
"Go on!" I cried. "Make for the other shore, and then
follow down until you find my friends. Tell them that I
 Lost Continent |