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: burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for morter.
GEN 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GEN 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
GEN 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
GEN 11:7 Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that
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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: city, when the days of the siege are fulfilled: and thou shalt take a
third part, and smite about it with a knife: and a third part thou shalt
scatter in the wind; and I will draw out a sword after them.
EZE 5:3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number, and bind them in
thy skirts.
EZE 5:4 Then take of them again, and cast them into the midst of the
fire, and burn them in the fire; for thereof shall a fire come forth
into all the house of Israel.
EZE 5:5 Thus saith the Lord GOD; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in
the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.
EZE 5:6 And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the
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