| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Philebus by Plato: PROTARCHUS: Which of them?
SOCRATES: Were we not saying that God revealed a finite element of
existence, and also an infinite?
PROTARCHUS: Certainly.
SOCRATES: Let us assume these two principles, and also a third, which is
compounded out of them; but I fear that I am ridiculously clumsy at these
processes of division and enumeration.
PROTARCHUS: What do you mean, my good friend?
SOCRATES: I say that a fourth class is still wanted.
PROTARCHUS: What will that be?
SOCRATES: Find the cause of the third or compound, and add this as a
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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 Outlaw of Torn by Edgar Rice Burroughs: the position of authority in the castle of Torn. The old
man simply rode and fought with the others when it
pleased him; and he had come on this trip because he
felt that there was that impending for which he had
waited over twenty years.
Cold and hard, he looked with no love upon the
man he still called "my son." If he held any sentiment
toward Norman of Torn it was one of pride which
began and ended in the almost fiendish skill of his
pupil's mighty sword arm.
The little army had been marching for some hours
The Outlaw of Torn |
