| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Chinese Boy and Girl by Isaac Taylor Headland:
She is in Japan. She has taught the children there to put
their fingers together as we do for "This is the church,
this is the steeple," when she says:
A bamboo road,
With a floor-mat siding,
Children are quarrelling,
And parents chiding,
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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 Koran: enter uninhabited houses,-a convenience for you;-and God knows what ye
show and what ye hide.
Say to the believers that they cast down their looks and guard their
private parts; that is purer for them; verily, God is well aware of
what they do.
And say to the believing women that they cast down their looks and
guard their private parts, and display not their ornaments, except
those which are outside; and let them pull their kerchiefs over
their bosoms and not display their ornaments save to their husbands
and fathers, or the fathers of their husbands, or their sons, or the
sons of their husbands, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or
The Koran |
