| 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: correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a
destroying lion.
JER 2:31 O generation, see ye the word of the LORD. Have I been a
wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We
are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
JER 2:32 Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? yet my
people have forgotten me days without number.
JER 2:33 Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou
also taught the wicked ones thy ways.
JER 2:34 Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor
innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all these.
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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: door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
EXO 38:9 And he made the court: on the south side southward the
hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
EXO 38:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
EXO 38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
EXO 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets of silver.
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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: GEN 24:47 And I asked her, and said, Whose daughter art thou? And she
said, the daughter of Bethuel, Nahor's son, whom Milcah bare unto him:
and I put the earring upon her face, and the bracelets upon her hands.
GEN 24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the LORD, and
blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right
way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.
GEN 24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell
me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the
left.
GEN 24:50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing
proceedeth from the LORD: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.
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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: of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
CH2 16:3 There is a league between me and thee, as there was between my
father and thy father: behold, I have sent thee silver and gold; go,
break thy league with Baasha king of Israel, that he may depart from me.
CH2 16:4 And Benhadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of
his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan,
and Abelmaim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.
CH2 16:5 And it came to pass, when Baasha heard it, that he left off
building of Ramah, and let his work cease.
CH2 16:6 Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the
stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha was building;
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