| 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: drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way
through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
ISA 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there
is no place clean.
ISA 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from
the breasts.
ISA 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
ISA 28:11 For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to
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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: AMO 8:9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that
I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in
the clear day:
AMO 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and
baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only
son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
AMO 8:11 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a
famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but
of hearing the words of the LORD:
AMO 8:12 And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even
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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: ISA 29:4 And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the
ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall
be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy
speech shall whisper out of the dust.
ISA 29:5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small
dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that
passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.
ISA 29:6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and
with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame
of devouring fire.
ISA 29:7 And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel,
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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: him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and
he poured oil thereon.
GEN 35:15 And Jacob called the name of the place where God spake with
him, Bethel.
GEN 35:16 And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little
way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour.
GEN 35:17 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the
midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
GEN 35:18 And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she
died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him
Benjamin.
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