| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: was from the beginning a lame and ill-made abortion. For
a long period the tribes of men, like the tribes of the higher
animals, must have been (on the whole, and allowing
for occasional privations and sufferings and conflicts) well
adapted to their surroundings and harmonious with the
earth and with each other. There must have been
a period resembling a Golden Age--some condition at any
rate which, compared with subsequent miseries, merited the
epithet 'golden.'
It was during this period apparently that the system of
Totems arose. The tribes felt their relationship to their
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Somebody's Little Girl by Martha Young: together to the Mall where the band was playing.
Bessie Bell was always so glad when Sister Helen Vincula took her to
the Mall in the afternoon when the band played.
All the little children went every afternoon in their prettiest
dresses to the Mall where the band played.
Because in the afternoon the band played just the sort of music that
little girls liked to hear.
Every afternoon all the nurses came to the Mall and brought all the
babies, and the nurses rolled the babies up and down the sawdust
walks in the pretty baby-carriages, with nice white, and pink, and
blue parasols over the babies' heads.
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