| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: held wide the cabin door as they passed out.
For three weeks he fought the grim battle with
Death for the two young lives the Christmas
tragedy had thrust into his hands. He gave his
entire time day and night to the desperate struggle.
When pneumonia had developed and Jim's life hung by
a hair, he slept on the couch in the living-room of the
cabin and had Nance make for herself a bed on the floor
of the kitchen.
The old woman remained an obedient child. She
cooked the Doctor's meals and did the work about the
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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 Odyssey by Homer: So they had the head and voice, the bristles and the shape
of swine, but their mind abode even as of old. Thus were
they penned there weeping, and Circe flung them acorns and
mast and fruit of the cornel tree to eat, whereon wallowing
swine do always batten.
'Now Eurylochus came back to the swift black ship to bring
tidings of his fellows, and of their unseemly doom. Not a
word could he utter, for all his desire, so deeply smitten
was he to the heart with grief, and his eyes were filled
with tears and his soul was fain of lamentation. But when
we all had pressed him with our questions in amazement,
The Odyssey |
