| 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: SA2 10:1 And it came to pass after this, that the king of the children
of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.
SA2 10:2 Then said David, I will shew kindness unto Hanun the son of
Nahash, as his father shewed kindness unto me. And David sent to comfort
him by the hand of his servants for his father. And David's servants
came into the land of the children of Ammon.
SA2 10:3 And the princes of the children of Ammon said unto Hanun their
lord, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent
comforters unto thee? hath not David rather sent his servants unto thee,
to search the city, and to spy it out, and to overthrow it?
SA2 10:4 Wherefore Hanun took David's servants, and shaved off the one
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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: to the man whom the king delighteth to honour.
EST 6:10 Then the king said to Haman, Make haste, and take the apparel
and the horse, as thou hast said, and do even so to Mordecai the Jew,
that sitteth at the king's gate: let nothing fail of all that thou hast
spoken.
EST 6:11 Then took Haman the apparel and the horse, and arrayed
Mordecai, and brought him on horseback through the street of the city,
and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done unto the man whom the
king delighteth to honour.
EST 6:12 And Mordecai came again to the king's gate. But Haman hasted
to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
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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: whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people
that follow Absalom.
SA2 17:10 And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a
lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a
mighty man, and they which be with him are valiant men.
SA2 17:11 Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered
unto thee, from Dan even to Beersheba, as the sand that is by the sea
for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.
SA2 17:12 So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be
found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and
of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so
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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: to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
SA2 24:16 And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to
destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel
that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the
angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
SA2 24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that
smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly:
but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house.
SA2 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
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