| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 105: 15 'Touch not Mine anointed ones, and do My prophets no harm.'
Psalms 105: 16 And He called a famine upon the land; He broke the whole staff of bread.
Psalms 105: 17 He sent a man before them; Joseph was sold for a servant;
Psalms 105: 18 His feet they hurt with fetters, his person was laid in iron;
Psalms 105: 19 Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.
Psalms 105: 20 The king sent and loosed him; even the ruler of the peoples, and set him free.
Psalms 105: 21 He made him lord of his house, and ruler of all his possessions;
Psalms 105: 22 To bind his princes at his pleasure, and teach his elders wisdom.
Psalms 105: 23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Psalms 105: 24 And He increased His people greatly, and made them too mighty for their adversaries.
Psalms 105: 25 He turned their heart to hate His people, to deal craftily with His servants.
 The Tanach |
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 Prince Otto by Robert Louis Stevenson: The rest is moonshine.'
'I think of love more absolutely, madam, though I am certain no more
tenderly, than a lady to whom I am indebted for such kindnesses,'
returned the Prince. 'But this is unavailing. We are not here to
hold a court of troubadours.'
'Still,' she replied, 'there is one thing you forget. If she
conspires with Gondremark against your liberty, she may conspire
with him against your honour also.'
'My honour?' he repeated. 'For a woman, you surprise me. If I have
failed to gain her love or play my part of husband, what right is
left me? or what honour can remain in such a scene of defeat? No
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