| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Poems of Goethe, Bowring, Tr. by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: First we feel, and then we find each feeling
By the changeful world-stream borne away.
Well I know, we oft within us find
Many a hope and many a smart.
Charlotte, who can know our mind?
Charlotte, who can know our heart?
Ah! 'twould fain be understood, 'twould fain o'erflow
In some creature's fellow-feelings blest,
And, with trust, in twofold measure know
All the grief and joy in Nature's breast.
Then thine eye is oft around thee cast,
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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 At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: and passages probably leading over unlimited areas outside this
particular building. The Cyclopean massiveness and gigantism of
everything about us became curiously oppressive; and there was
something vaguely but deeply unhuman in all the contours, dimensions,
proportions, decorations, and constructional nuances of the blasphemously
archaic stonework. We soon realized, from what the carvings revealed,
that this monstrous city was many million years old.
We cannot
yet explain the engineering principles used in the anomalous balancing
and adjustment of the vast rock masses, though the function of
the arch was clearly much relied on. The rooms we visited were
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