| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were
their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah.
EZE 23:5 And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted
on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,
EZE 23:6 Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them
desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses.
EZE 23:7 Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that
were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all
their idols she defiled herself.
EZE 23:8 Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her
youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity,
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Man in Lower Ten by Mary Roberts Rinehart: telegram, but I was afraid to throw the scraps away. Then I looked
around for lower ten. It was almost exactly across - my berth was
lower seven, and it was, of course, a bit of exceptional luck for
me that the car was number seven."
"Did you tell your sister of the telegram from Bronson?" I asked.
"No. It would do no good, and she was in a bad way without that to
make her worse."
"Your sister was killed, think." The shorter detective took a small
package from his pocket and held it in his hand, snapping the rubber
band which held it.
"Yes, she was killed," Sullivan said soberly. "What I say now can
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Soul of the Far East by Percival Lowell: comparisons in his own mind between a former state of existence and
the present one unfavorable to the latter is not pleasant for the
adopters to contemplate. He is therefore acquired young. The
amusement derived from his company is thus seen to be distinctly
paramount to all other considerations. No one cares so heartily to
own a dog which has been the property of another; a fortiori of a
child. It is clearly, then, not as a necessity that the babe is
adopted. If such were the case, if like the ancient Romans all a
man wanted was the continuance of the family line, he would
naturally wait until the last practicable moment; for he would thus
save both care and expense. In the Far East adoption is quite a
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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 The Foolish Virgin by Thomas Dixon: beyond Mount Mitchell."
"You've been there?" he asked in surprise.
"Once, with a party from Asheville. We spent three
days and slept in caves."
"Suppose you'd know the way now?"
"We couldn't miss it. We follow the bed of the
Swannanoa to its source-----"
"Then that settles it. We'll go by ourselves. I
don't want any mutt along to show us the way. We
couldn't get lost nohow, could we?"
"Of course not--all the roads lead to Asheville.
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