| 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: away the sheaf from the hungry;
JOB 24:11 Which make oil within their walls, and tread their
winepresses, and suffer thirst.
JOB 24:12 Men groan from out of the city, and the soul of the wounded
crieth out: yet God layeth not folly to them.
JOB 24:13 They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not
the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.
JOB 24:14 The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and
needy, and in the night is as a thief.
JOB 24:15 The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight,
saying, No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face.
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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: inhabitants of Gibeah, which were numbered seven hundred chosen men.
JDG 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not
miss.
JDG 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
JDG 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of
God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first
to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah
shall go up first.
JDG 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, 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: GEN 28:11 And he lighted upon a certain place, and tarried there all
night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place,
and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep.
GEN 28:12 And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and
the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending
and descending on it.
GEN 28:13 And, behold, the LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD
God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou
liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;
GEN 28:14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth, and thou
shalt spread abroad to the west, and to the east, and to the north, and
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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: Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every
day's work required:
CH1 16:38 And Obededom with their brethren, threescore and eight;
Obededom also the son of Jeduthun and Hosah to be porters:
CH1 16:39 And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before
the tabernacle of the LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
CH1 16:40 To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the
burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to
all that is written in the law of the LORD, which he commanded Israel;
CH1 16:41 And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were
chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the LORD, because
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