| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: Ezekiel 40: 27 And there was a gate to the inner court toward the south; and he measured from gate to gate toward the south a hundred cubits.
Ezekiel 40: 28 Then he brought me to the inner court by the south gate; and he measured the south gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel 40: 29 and the cells thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures; and there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
Ezekiel 40: 30 And there were arches round about, five and twenty cubits long, and five cubits broad.
Ezekiel 40: 31 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof; and the going up to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40: 32 And he brought me into the inner court toward the east; and he measured the gate according to these measures;
Ezekiel 40: 33 and the cells thereof, and the posts thereof, and the arches thereof, according to these measures; and there were windows therein and in the arches thereof round about; it was fifty cubits long, and five and twenty cubits broad.
Ezekiel 40: 34 And the arches thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side; and the going up to it had eight steps.
Ezekiel 40: 35 And he brought me to the north gate; and he measured it according to these measures;
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from In the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson: I continued to protest I was no trader; he deigned not to reply.
There must have been twenty pounds on the table, he was still going
on, and irritation had begun to mingle with our embarrassment, when
a happy idea came to our delivery. Since his majesty thought so
much of the bag, we said, we must beg him to accept it as a
present. It was the most surprising turn in Tembinok's experience.
He perceived too late that his persistence was unmannerly; hung his
head a while in silence; then, lifting up a sheepish countenance,
'I 'shamed,' said the tyrant. It was the first and the last time
we heard him own to a flaw in his behaviour. Half an hour after he
sent us a camphor-wood chest worth only a few dollars - but then
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