| 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: JDG 8:24 And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you,
that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had
golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)
JDG 8:25 And they answered, We will willingly give them. And they
spread a garment, and did cast therein every man the earrings of his
prey.
JDG 8:26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a
thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and
collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside
the chains that were about their camels' necks.
JDG 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even
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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: righteous:
NEH 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
heardest their cry by the Red sea;
NEH 9:10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his
servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they
dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this
day.
NEH 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went
through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou
threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
NEH 9:12 Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and
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