| 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: DEU 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are
judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
DEU 32:5 They have corrupted themselves, their spot is not the spot of
his children: they are a perverse and crooked generation.
DEU 32:6 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? is
not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and
established thee?
DEU 32:7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many
generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they
will tell thee.
DEU 32:8 When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance,
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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: PSA 144:4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth
away.
PSA 144:5 Bow thy heavens, O LORD, and come down: touch the mountains,
and they shall smoke.
PSA 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine
arrows, and destroy them.
PSA 144:7 Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of
great waters, from the hand of strange children;
PSA 144:8 Whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right
hand of falsehood.
PSA 144:9 I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and
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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: price of wisdom is above rubies.
JOB 28:19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it, neither shall it be
valued with pure gold.
JOB 28:20 Whence then cometh wisdom? and where is the place of
understanding?
JOB 28:21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close
from the fowls of the air.
JOB 28:22 Destruction and death say, We have heard the fame thereof
with our ears.
JOB 28:23 God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place
thereof.
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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: GEN 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as have cattle.
GEN 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ.
GEN 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
GEN 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
voice; ye wives of Lamech, hearken unto my speech: for I have slain a
man to my wounding, and a young man to my hurt.
GEN 4:24 If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and
sevenfold.
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