| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Twilight Land by Howard Pyle: "have I done everything that I should?"
"No," said the Talisman, "thou shouldst not have brought the jar
of golden money and the jar of silver money with thee; for that
which is evil in the greatest is evil in the least. Thou fool!
The treasure is cursed! Cast it all from thee while there is yet
time."
"Yes, I will do that, too, " said the Wise Man. So he buried in
the earth the jar of gold and the jar of silver that he had
brought with him, and then he stamped the mould down upon it.
After that the Wise Man began his life all over again. He bought,
and he sold, and he traded, and by-and-by he became rich. Then he
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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 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen: Mrs. Ferrars does not know what she may be doing--what
she may drive her son to. I have seen Mr. Ferrars two
or three times in Harley Street, and am much pleased
with him. He is not a young man with whom one can
be intimately acquainted in a short time, but I have
seen enough of him to wish him well for his own sake,
and as a friend of yours, I wish it still more.
I understand that he intends to take orders. Will you
be so good as to tell him that the living of Delaford,
now just vacant, as I am informed by this day's post,
is his, if he think it worth his acceptance--but THAT,
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