| 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: sword of the wilderness.
LAM 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
famine.
LAM 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities
of Judah.
LAM 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured.
LAM 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under
the wood.
LAM 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their
musick.
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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: that Jerusalem was taken: and he was there when Jerusalem was taken.
JER 39:1 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth
month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against
Jerusalem, and they besieged it.
JER 39:2 And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the
ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.
JER 39:3 And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in
the middle gate, even Nergalsharezer, Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris,
Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, with all the residue of the princes of the king
of Babylon.
JER 39:4 And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw
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