| 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: dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege,
O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.
ISA 21:3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold
upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at
the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
ISA 21:4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my
pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
ISA 21:5 Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise,
ye princes, and anoint the shield.
ISA 21:6 For thus hath the LORD said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let
him declare what he seeth.
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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: bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.
NUM 19:9 And a man that is clean shall gather up the ashes of the
heifer, and lay them up without the camp in a clean place, and it shall
be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of
separation: it is a purification for sin.
NUM 19:10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his
clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the
children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them,
for a statute for ever.
NUM 19:11 He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean
seven days.
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