| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: the kingdom of God.
LUK 23:52 This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.
LUK 23:53 And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in
a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
LUK 23:54 And that day was the preparation, and the sabbath drew on.
LUK 23:55 And the women also, which came with him from Galilee,
followed after, and beheld the sepulchre, and how his body was laid.
LUK 23:56 And they returned, and prepared spices and ointments; and
rested the sabbath day according to the commandment.
LUK 24:1 Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning,
they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had
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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 The Europeans by Henry James: the extraordinary mixture of smartness and shabbiness.
From one hour to another the day had grown vernal; even in
the bustling streets there was an odor of earth and blossom.
Felix was immensely entertained. He had called it a comical
country, and he went about laughing at everything he saw.
You would have said that American civilization expressed itself
to his sense in a tissue of capital jokes. The jokes were
certainly excellent, and the young man's merriment was joyous
and genial. He possessed what is called the pictorial sense;
and this first glimpse of democratic manners stirred the same
sort of attention that he would have given to the movements
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