| 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: behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
ECC 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which
is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECC 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great
estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before
me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and
knowledge.
ECC 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
ECC 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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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: way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die,
O house of Israel?
EZE 33:12 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy
people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the
day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall
not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither
shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day
that he sinneth.
EZE 33:13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live;
if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his
righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he
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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: believed not on him:
JOH 12:38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled,
which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the
arm of the Lord been revealed?
JOH 12:39 Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said
again,
JOH 12:40 He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that
they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart,
and be converted, and I should heal them.
JOH 12:41 These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of
him.
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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: SA2 20:5 So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried
longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
SA2 20:6 And David said to Abishai, Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri
do us more harm than did Absalom: take thou thy lord's servants, and
pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape us.
SA2 20:7 And there went out after him Joab's men, and the Cherethites,
and the Pelethites, and all the mighty men: and they went out of
Jerusalem, to pursue after Sheba the son of Bichri.
SA2 20:8 When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa
went before them. And Joab's garment that he had put on was girded unto
him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the
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