| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: 2_Samuel 22: 34 Who maketh my feet like hinds', and setteth me upon my high places;
2_Samuel 22: 35 Who traineth my hands for war, so that mine arms do bend a bow of brass.
2_Samuel 22: 36 Thou hast also given me Thy shield of salvation; and Thy condescension hath made me great.
2_Samuel 22: 37 Thou hast enlarged my steps under me, and my feet have not slipped.
2_Samuel 22: 38 I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; neither did I turn back till they were consumed.
2_Samuel 22: 39 And I have consumed them, and smitten them through, that they cannot arise; yea, they are fallen under my feet.
2_Samuel 22: 40 For Thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle; Thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.
2_Samuel 22: 41 Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me; yea, them that hate me, that I might cut them off.
2_Samuel 22: 42 They looked, but there was none to save; even unto the LORD, but He answered them not.
2_Samuel 22: 43 Then did I beat them small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the streets, and did tread them down.
2_Samuel 22: 44 Thou also hast delivered me from the contentions of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations; a people whom I have not known serve me.
 The Tanach |
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 Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche: odour of the genuine, tender, stupid beadsman and petty soul in
it). To have bound up this New Testament (a kind of ROCOCO of
taste in every respect) along with the Old Testament into one
book, as the "Bible," as "The Book in Itself," is perhaps the
greatest audacity and "sin against the Spirit" which literary
Europe has upon its conscience.
53. Why Atheism nowadays? "The father" in God is thoroughly
refuted; equally so "the judge," "the rewarder." Also his "free
will": he does not hear--and even if he did, he would not know
how to help. The worst is that he seems incapable of
communicating himself clearly; is he uncertain?--This is what I
 Beyond Good and Evil |