| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Records of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson: powdered state. The mortar-makers, on the other hand, were
often not a little distressed with the heat of the fire and
the sparks elicited on the anvil, and not unaptly complained
that they were placed between the `devil and the deep sea.'
[Sunday, 25th June]
The work being now about ten feet in height, admitted of
a rope-ladder being distended (1) between the beacon and the
building. By this `Jacob's Ladder,' as the seamen termed it,
a communication was kept up with the beacon while the rock was
considerably under water. One end of it being furnished with
tackle-blocks, was fixed to the beams of the beacon, at 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 Dreams by Olive Schreiner: has killed him with the knife he holds in his hand; and silently and
invisibly he has crept up to the woman, and with that knife of Mechanical
Invention he has cut the band that bound the burden to her back. The
Inevitable Necessity it broken. She might rise now."
And I saw that she still lay motionless on the sand, with her eyes open and
her neck stretched out. And she seemed to look for something on the far-
off border of the desert that never came. And I wondered if she were awake
or asleep. And as I looked her body quivered, and a light came into her
eyes, like when a sunbeam breaks into a dark room.
I said, "What is it?"
He whispered "Hush! the thought has come to her, 'Might I not rise?'"
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