| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: evil. But when the second stage set in, in which man
became preponderantly SELF-conscious, he inevitably set
about deflecting sex-activities to his own private pleasure
and advantage; he employed his budding intellect in
scheming the derailment of passion and desire from tribal
needs and, Nature's uses to the poor details of his own
gratification. If the first stage of harmonious sex-instinct
and activity may be held as characteristic of the Golden
Age, the second stage must be taken to represent the Fall
of man and his expulsion from Paradise in the Garden of
Eden story. The pleasure and glory of Sex having been
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen: means of forwarding it. Accordingly, on this principle,
Sir Thomas took the first opportunity of saying to her,
with a mild gravity, intended to be overcoming,
"Well, Fanny, I have seen Mr. Crawford again, and learn
from him exactly how matters stand between you. He is
a most extraordinary young man, and whatever be the event,
you must feel that you have created an attachment of no
common character; though, young as you are, and little
acquainted with the transient, varying, unsteady nature
of love, as it generally exists, you cannot be struck
as I am with all that is wonderful in a perseverance
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