| 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: from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
NUM 1:23 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Simeon,
were fifty and nine thousand and three hundred.
NUM 1:24 Of the children of Gad, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
NUM 1:25 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Gad,
were forty and five thousand six hundred and fifty.
NUM 1:26 Of the children of Judah, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
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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: oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and
beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
KI1 7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
KI1 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit:
but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and
an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders,
foursquare, not round.
KI1 7:32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of
the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a
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