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: their mourning.
JOB 3:9 Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for
light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
JOB 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes.
JOB 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
when I came out of the belly?
JOB 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should
suck?
JOB 3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
slept: then had I been at rest,
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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: of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
people:
KI1 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
KI1 9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
KI1 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
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