The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Camille by Alexandre Dumas: thunder weather gets on my nerves; I do not say what I intend to
say."
And after embracing me she fell into a long reverie.
Scenes of this kind often took place, and though I could not
discover their cause, I could not fail to see in Marguerite signs
of disquietude in regard to the future. She could not doubt my
love, which increased day by day, and yet I often found her sad,
without being able to get any explanation of the reason, except
some physical cause. Fearing that so monotonous a life was
beginning to weary her, I proposed returning to Paris; but she
always refused, assuring me that she could not be so happy
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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 Gorgias by Plato: great many times from you and from Polus and from nearly every man in the
city, but I wish that you would hear me too. I dare say that he will kill
him if he has a mind--the bad man will kill the good and true.
CALLICLES: And is not that just the provoking thing?
SOCRATES: Nay, not to a man of sense, as the argument shows: do you think
that all our cares should be directed to prolonging life to the uttermost,
and to the study of those arts which secure us from danger always; like
that art of rhetoric which saves men in courts of law, and which you advise
me to cultivate?
CALLICLES: Yes, truly, and very good advice too.
SOCRATES: Well, my friend, but what do you think of swimming; is that an
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