| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Light of Western Stars by Zane Grey: padre--Padre Marcos. The poor priest was--terribly frightened.
So was I. Stewart had turned into a devil. He fired his gun at
the padre's feet. He pushed me into a bench. Again he shot--
right before my face. I--I nearly fainted. But I heard him
cursing the padre--heard the padre praying or chanting--I didn't
know what. Stewart tried to make me say things in Spanish. All
at once he asked my name. I told him. He jerked at my veil. I
took it off. Then he threw his gun down--pushed the padre out of
the door. That was just before the vaqueros approached with
Bonita. Padre Marcos must have seen them--must have heard them.
After that Stewart grew quickly sober. He was mortified--
The Light of Western Stars |
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 Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner: Softly he comes up (we are only a wee bit child); "Is it good of God to
make hell? Was it kind of Him to let no one be forgiven unless Jesus
Christ died?"
Then he goes off, and leaves us writhing. Presently he comes back.
"Do you love Him?"--waits a little. "Do you love Him? You will be lost if
you don't."
We say we try to.
"But do you?" Then he goes off.
It is nothing to him if we go quite mad with fear at our own wickedness.
He asks on, the questioning devil; he cares nothing what he says. We long
to tell some one, that they may share our pain. We do not yet know that
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