| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: lives lost in his cause, made his escape from the Covenanters,
with the determination of arousing the Royalists who lay in the
north. But the Scots soon overtook and recaptured him. However,
this decisive action awoke them to a better understanding of the
deference due to his position, and therefore they crowned him at
Scone on the first day of the year 1651, with much solemnity, and
subsequently made him commander of the army.
After spending some months in reorganizing the troops, he boldly
declared his intention of marching into England, and fighting the
rebel force. Accordingly, on the 31st of July, 1651, he set out
from Sterling with an army of between eleven and twelve thousand
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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 Call of Cthulhu by H. P. Lovecraft: more subtly fearful because its source was so totally unknown.
Its vast, awesome, and incalculable age was unmistakable; yet
not one link did it shew with any known type of art belonging
to civilisation's youth - or indeed to any other time. Totally
separate and apart, its very material was a mystery; for the soapy,
greenish-black stone with its golden or iridescent flecks and
striations resembled nothing familiar to geology or mineralogy.
The characters along the base were equally baffling; and no member
present, despite a representation of half the world's expert learning
in this field, could form the least notion of even their remotest
linguistic kinship. They, like the subject and material, belonged
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