The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Koran: With Him are the keys of the unseen. None knows them save He; He
knows what is in the land and in the sea; and there falls not a leaf
save that He knows it; nor a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor
aught that is moist, nor aught that is dry, save that is in His
perspicuous Book.
He it is who takes you to Himself at night, and knows what ye have
gained in the day; then He raises you up again, that your appointed
time may be fulfilled; then unto Him is your return, and then will
He inform you of what ye have done.
He triumphs over His servants; He sends to them guardian angels,
until, when death comes to any one of you, our messengers take him
The Koran |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Rig Veda: way unto
the Fathers.
2 When thou hast made him ready, Jatavedas, then do thou give
him over
to the Fathers.
When he attains unto the life that waits him, he shall become
the
Deities' controller.
3 The Sun receive thine eye, tne Wind thy spirit; go, as thy
merit is,
to earth or heaven.
The Rig Veda |