| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Kreutzer Sonata by Leo Tolstoy: "When people say that they do not remember what they do in a fit
of fury, they talk nonsense. It is false. I remember everything.
I did not lose my consciousness for a single moment. The more I
lashed myself to fury, the clearer my mind became, and I could
not help seeing what I did. I cannot say that I knew in advance
what I would do, but at the moment when I acted, and it seems to
me even a little before, I knew what I was doing, as if to make
it possible to repent, and to be able to say later that I could
have stopped.
"I knew that I struck the blow between the ribs, and that the
dagger entered.
The Kreutzer Sonata |
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 Mucker by Edgar Rice Burroughs: The front room revealed no clue to the missing men. Within
the smaller, rear room Byrne heard the subdued hum of
whispered conversation just as he was about to open the
door. Like a graven image he stood in silence, his ear glued to
the frail door. For a moment he listened thus and then his
heart gave a throb of exultation, and he could have shouted
aloud in thanksgiving--the men were conversing in English!
Quietly Byrne pushed open the door far enough to admit
his body. Those within ceased speaking immediately. Byrne
closed the door behind him, advancing until he felt one of the
occupants of the room. The man shrank from his touch.
The Mucker |
