| 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: them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
NEH 5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands,
their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth
part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact
of them.
NEH 5:12 Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing
of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and
took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.
NEH 5:13 Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from
his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even
thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen,
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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: JOB 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living.
JOB 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though
they cry in his destruction.
JOB 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul
grieved for the poor?
JOB 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I
waited for light, there came darkness.
JOB 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction
prevented me.
JOB 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in
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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: house.
KI1 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the
fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is
the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.
KI1 6:2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD, the length
thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits,
and the height thereof thirty cubits.
KI1 6:3 And the porch before the temple of the house, twenty cubits was
the length thereof, according to the breadth of the house; and ten
cubits was the breadth thereof before the house.
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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: 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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