| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: have kind; of that one and of that other. And they have but one
pap on the one side, and on that other none. And they have members
of generation of man and woman, and they use both when they list,
once that one, and another time that other. And they get children,
when they use the member of man; and they bear children, when they
use the member of woman.
And in another isle be folk that go always upon their knees full
marvellously. And at every pace that they go, it seemeth that they
would fall. And they have in every foot eight toes.
Many other diverse folk of diverse natures be there in other isles
about, of the which it were too long to tell, and therefore I pass
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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 Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome: use them all if they lived to be a hundred. Well, one fine
day, early last summer, she was told that her house was
wanted and that she must clear out. For two days she ran
hither and thither trying to get out of giving it up. Then she
saw it was no good, and piled all those things, samovars and
knives and forks and dinner services and tablecloths and
overcoats (there were over a dozen fur overcoats) in the
garrets which she closed and sealed, and got the president of
the Soviet to come and put his seal also. In the end things
were so friendly that he even put a sentinel there to see that
the seal should not be broken. Then came the news from
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