| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: from the nearest gate. They moved leisurely, as though there
were no need for haste--nor was there, as I was presently to learn.
Then I turned my eyes once more toward the flier. She was
moving rapidly toward the city, and when she had come close enough
I was surprised to see that her propellers were idle.
Straight for that grim shaft she bore. At the last minute I
saw the great blades move to reverse her, yet on she came as though
drawn by some mighty, irresistible power.
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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 Reminiscences of Tolstoy by Leo Tolstoy: he had been in the distant days of our childhood.
"In these latter days, in our old age, he was fonder of me,
valued my attachment more, was prouder of me, wanted to agree with
me, but could not, and remained just the same as he had always
been; namely, something quite apart, only himself, handsome,
aristocratic, proud, and, above all, truthful and sincere to a
degree that I never met in any other man.
"He was what he was; he concealed nothing, and did not wish to
appear anything different."
Uncle Seryózha never treated children affectionately;
on the contrary, he seemed to put up with us rather than to like
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