| 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: worth as much as special Masses for individuals, and this
brought forth that infinite multitude of Masses. [With this
work men wished to obtain from God all that they needed, and
in the mean time faith in Christ and the true worship were
forgotten.]
Concerning these opinions our teachers have given warning that
they depart from the Holy Scriptures and diminish the glory of
the passion of Christ. For Christ's passion was an oblation
and satisfaction, not for original guilt only, but also for
all other sins, as it is written to the Hebrews, 10, 10: We
are sanctified through the offering of Jesus Christ once for
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Betty Zane by Zane Grey: indistinctly in the morning mist, the faint outlines of tepees and wigwams,
and he knew he was once more in the encampment of the Wyandots.
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Late in the afternoon of that day Isaac was awakened from his heavy slumber
and told that the chief had summoned him. He got up from the buffalo robes
upon which he had flung himself that morning, stretched his aching limbs, and
walked to the door of the lodge.
The view before him was so familiar that it seemed as if he had suddenly come
home after being absent a long time. The last rays of the setting sun shone
ruddy and bright over the top of the Standing Stone; they touched the scores
of lodges and wigwams which dotted the little valley; they crimsoned the
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