| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Walden by Henry David Thoreau: of something kindred to me, even in scenes which we are accustomed
to call wild and dreary, and also that the nearest of blood to me
and humanest was not a person nor a villager, that I thought no
place could ever be strange to me again.
"Mourning untimely consumes the sad;
Few are their days in the land of the living,
Beautiful daughter of Toscar."
Some of my pleasantest hours were during the long rain-storms in
the spring or fall, which confined me to the house for the afternoon
as well as the forenoon, soothed by their ceaseless roar and
pelting; when an early twilight ushered in a long evening in which
Walden |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so
shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.
NUM 2:18 On the west side shall be the standard of the camp of Ephraim
according to their armies: and the captain of the sons of Ephraim shall
be Elishama the son of Ammihud.
NUM 2:19 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were forty
thousand and five hundred.
NUM 2:20 And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh: and the captain of
the children of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.
NUM 2:21 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
thirty and two thousand and two hundred.
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