| 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: cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for
abundance.
KI1 10:28 And Solomon had horses brought out of Egypt, and linen yarn:
the king's merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
KI1 10:29 And a chariot came up and went out of Egypt for six hundred
shekels of silver, and an horse for an hundred and fifty: and so for all
the kings of the Hittites, and for the kings of Syria, did they bring
them out by their means.
KI1 11:1 But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the
daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites,
Zidonians, and Hittites:
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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: all his furniture, and the altar of incense,
EXO 31:9 And the altar of burnt offering with all his furniture, and
the laver and his foot,
EXO 31:10 And the cloths of service, and the holy garments for Aaron
the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest's
office,
EXO 31:11 And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place:
according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.
EXO 31:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
EXO 31:13 Speak thou also unto the children of Israel, saying, Verily
my sabbaths ye shall keep: for it is a sign between me and you
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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: JOB 20:15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up
again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
JOB 20:16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall
slay him.
JOB 20:17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey
and butter.
JOB 20:18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not
swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be,
and he shall not rejoice therein.
JOB 20:19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because
he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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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: a swaddlingband for it,
JOB 38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
JOB 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here
shall thy proud waves be stayed?
JOB 38:12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days; and caused
the dayspring to know his place;
JOB 38:13 That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the
wicked might be shaken out of it?
JOB 38:14 It is turned as clay to the seal; and they stand as a
garment.
JOB 38:15 And from the wicked their light is withholden, and the high
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