| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske: character of its details, seems to rest upon a historical basis;
and perhaps the most plausible hypothesis which can be framed is,
that Jesus received baptism at John's hands, became for a while
his disciple, and acquired from him a knowledge of Essenian
doctrines.
The career of John seems to have been very brief. His stern
puritanism brought him soon into disgrace with the government of
Galilee. He was seized by Herod, thrown into prison, and
beheaded. After the brief hints given as to the intercourse
between Jesus and John, we next hear of Jesus alone in the
desert, where, like Sakyamuni and Mohammed, he may have brooded
The Unseen World and Other Essays |
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 Moon-Face and Other Stories by Jack London: "Don't tackle it," he called.
"I have faith in Comanche," she called in return.
"He can't make that side-jump to the gravel," Chris warned. "He'll never keep
his legs. He'll topple over into the pool. Not one horse in a thousand could
do that stunt."
"And Comanche is that very horse," she answered. "Watch him."
She gave the animal his head, and he leaped cleanly and accurately to the
ledge, striking with feet close together on the narrow space. On the instant
he struck, Lute lightly touched his neck with the rein, impelling him to the
left; and in that instant, tottering on the insecure footing, with front feet
slipping over into the pool beyond, he lifted on his hind legs, with a half
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