| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock: will play a part at this wedding.
"These are dangerous times, Robin," said Marian, "for playing
pranks out of the forest."
"Fear not," said Robin; "Edwinstow lies not Nottingham-ward,
and I will take my precautions."
Robin put on his harper's cloak, while Little John painted his eyebrows
and cheeks, tipped his nose with red, and tied him on a comely beard.
Marian confessed, that had she not been present at the metamorphosis,
she should not have known her own true Robin. Robin took his harp
and went to the wedding.
Robin found the bishop and his train in the church porch,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: Cathedral, at Seville the service of the Passion, carried
out on Good Friday with great solemnity and accompanied
with fine music, culminates on the Saturday morning--i.e.
in the interval between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection--
in a spectacle similar to that described in Ceylon.
A rich velvet-black curtain hangs before the High Altar. At
the appropriate moment and as the very emotional strains
of voices and instruments reach their climax in the "Gloria
in Excelsis," the curtain with a sudden burst of sound
(thunder and the ringing of all the bells) is rent asunder,
and the crucified Jesus is seen hanging there revealed in a
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
