| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Kings 4: 2 And these were the princes whom he had: Azariah the son of Zadok, the priest;
1_Kings 4: 3 Elihoreph and Ahijah, the sons of Shisha, scribes; Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud, the recorder;
1_Kings 4: 4 and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the host; and Zadok and Abiathar were priests;
1_Kings 4: 5 and Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers; and Zabud the son of Nathan was chief minister and the king's friend;
1_Kings 4: 6 and Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the levy.
1_Kings 4: 7 And Solomon had twelve officers over all Israel, who provided victuals for the king and his household: each man had to make provision for a month in the year.
1_Kings 4: 8 And these are their names: The son of Hur, in the hill-country of Ephraim;
1_Kings 4: 9 the son of Deker, in Makaz, and in Shaalbim, and Beth-shemesh, and Elon-beth-hanan;
1_Kings 4: 10 the son of Hesed, in Arubboth; to him pertained Socoh, and all the land of Hepher;
1_Kings 4: 11 the son of Abinadab, in all the region of Dor; he had Taphath the daughter of Solomon to wife;
1_Kings 4: 12 Baana the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is beside Zarethan, beneath Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as beyond Jokmeam;
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The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu by Sax Rohmer: to be there now we dared not conjecture. Mr. Eltham joined us,
uttered one short, dry sob, and dropped upon his knees.
Then we were carrying Denby back to the house, with the mastiff
howling a marche funebre.
We laid him on the grass where it sloped down from the terrace.
Nayland Smith's haggard face was terrible. But the stark horror of
the thing inspired him to that, which conceived earlier, had saved Denby.
Twisting suddenly to Eltham, he roared in a voice audible beyond the river:
"Heavens! we are fools! LOOSE THE DOG!"
"But the dog--" I began.
Smith clapped his hand over my mouth.
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