| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from United States Declaration of Independence: incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large
for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States;
for that purpose obstructing the Laws of Naturalization of Foreigners;
refusing to pass others to encourage their migration hither,
and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent
to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure
of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
United States Declaration of Independence |
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 Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter: of the meaning of these books would be far too large an
affair, and would be foreign to the purpose of the present
volume; but I have in the Appendix below inserted two papers,
(on "Rest" and "The Nature of the Self") containing the
substance of lectures given on the above books. These papers
or lectures are couched in the very simplest language,
free from Sanskrit terms and the usual 'jargon of the
Schools,' and may, I hope, even on that account be of
use in familiarizing readers who are not specially
STUDENTS with the ideas and mental attitudes of the cosmic
state. Non-differentiation (Advaita[1]) is the root attitude of
Pagan and Christian Creeds |
