| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Edgar Rice Burroughs: What would Achmet Zek say, if he knew? Werper grinned.
How the old rascal's eyes would pop could he but have a
glimpse of those scintillating beauties! Werper had
never yet had an opportunity to feast his eyes for any
great length of time upon them. He had not even
counted them--only roughly had he guessed at their
value.
He unfastened the belt and drew the pouch from its
hiding place. He was alone. The balance of the camp,
save the sentries, had retired--none would enter the
Belgian's tent. He fingered the pouch, feeling out the
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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 Collected Articles by Frederick Douglass: The second reason was, if possible, still more binding to silence:
the publication of details would certainly have put in peril
the persons and property of those who assisted. Murder itself was
not more sternly and certainly punished in the State of Maryland
than that of aiding and abetting the escape of a slave.
Many colored men, for no other crime than that of giving aid to
a fugitive slave, have, like Charles T. Torrey, perished in prison.
The abolition of slavery in my native State and throughout the country,
and the lapse of time, render the caution hitherto observed
no longer necessary. But even since the abolition of slavery,
I have sometimes thought it well enough to baffle curiosity
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