| 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: SA2 17:4 And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of
Israel.
SA2 17:5 Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let
us hear likewise what he saith.
SA2 17:6 And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him,
saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his
saying? if not; speak thou.
SA2 17:7 And Hushai said unto Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel hath
given is not good at this time.
SA2 17:8 For, said Hushai, thou knowest thy father and his men, that
they be mighty men, and they be chafed in their minds, as a bear robbed
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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: vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
CH2 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
CH2 9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
CH2 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in
abundance.
CH2 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
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| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from King James Bible: colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
EZE 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.
EZE 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
EZE 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up.
EZE 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for
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The fourth excerpt represents the element of Earth. It speaks of physical influences and the impact of the unseen on the visible world, and is drawn from King James Bible: turned back in the day of battle.
PSA 78:10 They kept not the covenant of God, and refused to walk in his
law;
PSA 78:11 And forgat his works, and his wonders that he had shewed
them.
PSA 78:12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers, in
the land of Egypt, in the field of Zoan.
PSA 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he
made the waters to stand as an heap.
PSA 78:14 In the daytime also he led them with a cloud, and all the
night with a light of fire.
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