| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.
MAT 8:10 When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that
followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no,
not in Israel.
MAT 8:11 And I say unto you, That many shall come from the east and
west, and shall sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the
kingdom of heaven.
MAT 8:12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer
darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
MAT 8:13 And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou
hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: after day they returned, exhausted and disappointed, to Apia.
Seumanu Tafa, high chief of Apia, was known to be in the forest
with the king; his wife, Fatuila, was seized, imprisoned in the
German hospital, and when it was thought her spirit was
sufficiently reduced, brought up for cross-examination. The wise
lady confined herself in answer to a single word. "Is your husband
near Apia?" "Yes." "Is he far from Apia?" "Yes." "Is he with the
king?" "Yes." "Are he and the king in different places?" "Yes."
Whereupon the witness was discharged. About the 10th of September,
Laupepa was secretly in Apia at the American consulate with two
companions. The German pickets were close set and visited by a
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from A Distinguished Provincial at Paris by Honore de Balzac: and set up a rival to the Minerve and the Conservateur; Eymery has
rather too much of his own way in the Minerve, and the Conservateur is
too blindly Romantic."
"Is he going to pay well?"
"Only too much--as usual," said the cashier.
Just as he spoke another young man entered; this was the writer of a
magnificent novel which had sold very rapidly and met with the
greatest possible success. Dauriat was bringing out a second edition.
The appearance of this odd and extraordinary looking being, so
unmistakably an artist, made a deep impression on Lucien's mind.
"That is Nathan," Lousteau said in his ear.
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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 The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe: occupations were neglected or forgotten. He roamed from chamber
to chamber with hurried, unequal, and objectless step. The
pallor of his countenance had assumed, if possible, a more
ghastly hue--but the luminousness of his eye had utterly gone
out. The once occasional huskiness of his tone was heard no
more; and a tremulous quaver, as if of extreme terror, habitually
characterized his utterance. There were times, indeed, when I
thought his unceasingly agitated mind was labouring with some
oppressive secret, to divulge which he struggled for the
necessary courage. At times, again, I was obliged to resolve all
into the mere inexplicable vagaries of madness, for I beheld him
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