| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: provision; but those who strive to discredit our signs, they are the
fellows of hell!'
We have not sent before thee any apostle or prophet, but that when
he wished, Satan threw not something into his wish; but God annuls
what Satan throws; then does God confirm his signs, and God is
knowing, wise-to make what Satan throws a trial unto those in whose
hearts is sickness, and those whose hearts are hard; and, verily,
the wrongdoers are in a wide schism-and that those who have been given
'the knowledge' may know that it is the truth from thy Lord, and may
believe therein, and that their hearts may be lowly; for, verily,
God surely will guide those who believe into a right way.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson: word that I am sore in want of. I know that what I said must hurt you,
and I knew it then. It would have been easy to have spoken smooth,
easy to lie to you; can you not think how I was tempted to the same?
Cannot you see the truth of my heart shine out?"
"I think here is a great deal of work, Mr. Balfour," said she. "I
think we will have met but the once, and will can part like gentle
folk."
"O, let me have one to believe in me!" I pleaded, "I cannae bear it
else. The whole world is clanned against me. How am I to go through
with my dreadful fate? If there's to be none to believe in me I cannot
do it. The man must just die, for I cannot do it."
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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 Ursula by Honore de Balzac: before the infinite divisibility of matter which is in the nature of
imponderable forces. Locke and Condillac retarded by fifty years the
immense progress which natural science is now making under the great
principle of unity due to Geoffroy de Saint-Hilaire. Some intelligent
persons, without any system, convinced by facts conscientiously
studied, still hold to Mesmer's doctrine, which recognizes the
existence of a penetrative influence acting from man to man, put in
motion by the will, curative by the abundance of the fluid, the
working of which is in fact a duel between two forces, between an ill
to be cured and the will to cure it.
The phenomena of somnambulism, hardly perceived by Mesmer, were
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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 Lost Princess of Oz by L. Frank Baum: and his brother, with Tik-Tok and Jack Pumpkinhead. Dorothy may make
up her own party and travel into the Winkie Country. All of you must
inquire everywhere for Ozma and try to discover where she is hidden."
They thought this a very wise plan and adopted it without question.
In Ozma's absence, Glinda the Good was the most important person in
Oz, and all were glad to serve under her direction.
CHAPTER 6
THE SEARCH PARTY
Next morning as soon as the sun was up, Glinda flew back to her
castle, stopping on the way to instruct the Scarecrow and the Tin
Woodman, who were at that time staying at the college of Professor H.
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