| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Poems by Bronte Sisters: Till they stretch into the gloom
Of the distant valley's shade;
I know thou wouldst rejoice
To inhale this bracing air;
Thou wouldst break thy sweetest sleep
To behold a scene so fair.
O'er these wintry wilds, ALONE,
Thou wouldst joy to wander free;
And it will not please thee less,
Though that bliss be shared with me.
THE CAPTIVE DOVE.
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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 Forged Coupon by Leo Tolstoy: change it to buckwheat. Thus all the youth of
the world, the entire younger generation, is being
ruined.
But woe to those who destroy one of these little
ones, woe to you if you destroy even one of
them. On your soul, however, are hosts of them,
who have been ruined in your name, all of those
over whom your power extends.
"But what can I do?" exclaimed the Tsar in
despair. "I do not wish to torture, to flog, to
corrupt, to kill any one! I only want the welfare
The Forged Coupon |
