| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Aeneid by Virgil: But his o'er-masted galley check'd his haste.
The Centaur and the Dolphin brush the brine
With equal oars, advancing in a line;
And now the mighty Centaur seems to lead,
And now the speedy Dolphin gets ahead;
Now board to board the rival vessels row,
The billows lave the skies, and ocean groans below.
They reach'd the mark. Proud Gyas and his train
In triumph rode, the victors of the main;
But, steering round, he charg'd his pilot stand
More close to shore, and skim along the sand-
Aeneid |
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 White Moll by Frank L. Packard: been arrested last night for theft, caught with the goods on me,
but had escaped?"
The Sparrow hesitated.
"Yes, I did," he said. And then, earnestly: "But I don't believe
it!"
"It was true, though, Marty - all except that I wasn't a thief,"
she said as quietly as before. "What I want to know is, in spite
of that, would you trust me with what is left to be done to-night,
if I tell you that I believe I can get you out of this?"
"Sure, I would!" he said simply. "I don't know how you got wise
about all this, or how you got to know about that necklace, but
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