| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence: you've no right to say such a thing."
"He's always saying these things!" cried the girl.
"In three months after I was buried you'd have somebody else,
and I should be forgotten," he said. "And that's your love!"
Mrs. Morel saw them into the train in Nottingham, then she
returned home.
"There's one comfort," she said to Paul--"he'll never have any
money to marry on, that I AM sure of. And so she'll save him that way."
So she took cheer. Matters were not yet very desperate.
She firmly believed William would never marry his Gipsy. She waited,
and she kept Paul near to her.
 Sons and Lovers |
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 Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: brotherhoods and sisterhoods of Frairs and Nuns, dedicated
to the help and healing of suffering humanity,
and the appearance of a few real lovers of mankind (and the
animals) like St. Francis--(and these manifestations can
hardly be claimed by the Church, which pretty consistently
opposed them)--it may be said that after about the fourth
century the real spirit and light of early Christian enthusiasm
died away. The incursions of barbarian tribes from the
North and East, and later of Moors and Arabs from the South,
familiarized the European peoples with the ideas of bloodshed
and violence; gross and material conceptions of life
 Pagan and Christian Creeds |