| 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: proportion of every one, and additions round about.
KI1 7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
casting, one measure, and one size.
KI1 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten
bases one laver.
KI1 7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five
on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of
the house eastward over against the south.
KI1 7:40 And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So
Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for
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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: shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
ISA 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
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.
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