The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from King James Bible: ISA 57:5 Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree,
slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?
ISA 57:6 Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they,
they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou
hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
ISA 57:7 Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even
thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
ISA 57:8 Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy
remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and
art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with
them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years
old and upward which have murmured against me.
NUM 14:30 Doubtless ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I
sware to make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and
Joshua the son of Nun.
NUM 14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
NUM 14:32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
NUM 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
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