The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Psalms 72: 17 May his name endure for ever; may his name be continued as long as the sun; may men also bless themselves by him; may all nations call him happy.
Psalms 72: 18 Blessed be the LORD God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things;
Psalms 72: 19 And blessed be His glorious name for ever; and let the whole earth be filled with His glory. Amen, and Amen.
Psalms 72: 20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended. BOOK III
Psalms 73: 1 A Psalm of Asaph. Surely God is good to Israel, even to such as are pure in heart.
Psalms 73: 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped.
Psalms 73: 3 For I was envious at the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Psalms 73: 4 For there are no pangs at their death, and their body is sound.
Psalms 73: 5 In the trouble of man they are not; neither are they plagued like men.
Psalms 73: 6 Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
Psalms 73: 7 Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.
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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 Recruit by Honore de Balzac: young, showed so much apparent nobleness and generosity in his
proceedings that Madame de Dey had not yet been able to judge him.
But, disregarding the danger that attends all attempts at subtilty
with Normans, she employed the inventive wit and slyness which Nature
grants to women in opposing the four rivals one against the other. By
thus gaining time, she hoped to come safe and sound to the end of the
national troubles. At this period, the royalists in the interior of
France expected day by day that the Revolution would be ended on the
morrow. This conviction was the ruin of very many of them.
In spite of these difficulties, the countess had maintained her
independence very cleverly until the day when, by an inexplicable
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