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: my lord, let it even be given unto the young men that follow my lord.
SA1 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the
LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth
the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy
days.
SA1 25:29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but
the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD
thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out
of the middle of a sling.
SA1 25:30 And it shall come to pass, when the LORD shall have done to
my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee,
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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: valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the
children.
JDG 21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly
destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
JDG 21:12 And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four
hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and
they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of
Canaan.
JDG 21:13 And the whole congregation sent some to speak to the children
of Benjamin that were in the rock Rimmon, and to call peaceably unto
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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: cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the
garlick:
NUM 11:6 But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all,
beside this manna, before our eyes.
NUM 11:7 And the manna was as coriander seed, and the colour thereof as
the colour of bdellium.
NUM 11:8 And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in
mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of
it: and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.
NUM 11:9 And when the dew fell upon the camp in the night, the manna
fell upon it.
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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: and casting himself down before the house of God, there assembled unto
him out of Israel a very great congregation of men and women and
children: for the people wept very sore.
EZR 10:2 And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam,
answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, and
have taken strange wives of the people of the land: yet now there is
hope in Israel concerning this thing.
EZR 10:3 Now therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away
all the wives, and such as are born of them, according to the counsel of
my lord, and of those that tremble at the commandment of our God; and
let it be done according to the law.
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