| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Genesis 36: 2 Esau took his wives of the daughters of Canaan; Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Oholibamah the daughter of Anah, the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Genesis 36: 3 and Basemath Ishmael's daughter, sister of Nebaioth.
Genesis 36: 4 And Adah bore to Esau Eliphaz; and Basemath bore Reuel;
Genesis 36: 5 and Oholibamah bore Jeush, and Jalam, and Korah. These are the sons of Esau, that were born unto him in the land of Canaan.
Genesis 36: 6 And Esau took his wives, and his sons, and his daughters, and all the souls of his house, and his cattle, and all his beasts, and all his possessions, which he had gathered in the land of Canaan; and went into a land away from his brother Jacob.
Genesis 36: 7 For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.
Genesis 36: 8 And Esau dwelt in the mountain-land of Seir--Esau is Edom.
Genesis 36: 9 And these are the generations of Esau the father of a the Edomites in the mountain-land of Seir.
Genesis 36: 10 These are the names of Esau's sons: Eliphaz the son of Adah the wife of Esau, Reuel the son of Basemath the wife of Esau.
Genesis 36: 11 And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.
 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 Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker: various rocky excrescences were groups of trees of various sizes and
heights, amongst some of which were what, in the early morning
light, looked like ruins. These--whatever they were--were of
massive grey stone, probably limestone rudely cut--if indeed they
were not shaped naturally. The fall of the ground was steep all
along the ridge, so steep that here and there both trees and rocks
and buildings seemed to overhang the plain far below, through which
ran many streams.
Sir Nathaniel stopped and looked around, as though to lose nothing
of the effect. The sun had climbed the eastern sky and was making
all details clear. He pointed with a sweeping gesture, as though
 Lair of the White Worm |