| 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: of an homer shall yield an ephah.
ISA 5:11 Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may
follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!
ISA 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine,
are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither
consider the operation of his hands.
ISA 5:13 Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have
no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude
dried up with thirst.
ISA 5:14 Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth
without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp,
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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: with the bulls; and their land shall be soaked with blood, and their
dust made fat with fatness.
ISA 34:8 For it is the day of the LORD's vengeance, and the year of
recompences for the controversy of Zion.
ISA 34:9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the
dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning
pitch.
ISA 34:10 It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof
shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste;
none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
ISA 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
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