| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: Job 15: 11 Are the consolations of God too small for thee, and the word that dealeth gently with thee?
Job 15: 12 Why doth thy heart carry thee away? And why do thine eyes wink?
Job 15: 13 That thou turnest thy spirit against God, and lettest such words go out of thy mouth.
Job 15: 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
Job 15: 15 Behold, He putteth no trust in His holy ones; yea, the heavens are not clean in His sight.
Job 15: 16 How much less one that is abominable and impure, man who drinketh iniquity like water!
Job 15: 17 I will tell thee, hear thou me; and that which I have seen I will declare--
Job 15: 18 Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it;
Job 15: 19 Unto whom alone the land was given, and no stranger passed among them.
Job 15: 20 The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, even the number of years that are laid up for the oppressor.
Job 15: 21 A sound of terrors is in his ears: in prosperity the destroyer shall come upon him.
 The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from A House of Pomegranates by Oscar Wilde: which is sweet to drink? Trouble not thyself, but come with me to
another city. There is a little city hard by in which there is a
garden of tulip-trees. And there dwell in this comely garden white
peacocks and peacocks that have blue breasts. Their tails when
they spread them to the sun are like disks of ivory and like gilt
disks. And she who feeds them dances for their pleasure, and
sometimes she dances on her hands and at other times she dances
with her feet. Her eyes are coloured with stibium, and her
nostrils are shaped like the wings of a swallow. From a hook in
one of her nostrils hangs a flower that is carved out of a pearl.
She laughs while she dances, and the silver rings that are about
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