| 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: word of the LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion,
which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word of the LORD,
which he spake unto him.
KI1 13:27 And he spake to his sons, saying, Saddle me the ass. And they
saddled him.
KI1 13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the
ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the
carcase, nor torn the ass.
KI1 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and
laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to
the city, to mourn and to bury him.
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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: shovels, and the basons, and the fleshhooks, and the firepans: all the
vessels thereof made he of brass.
EXO 38:4 And he made for the altar a brasen grate of network under the
compass thereof beneath unto the midst of it.
EXO 38:5 And he cast four rings for the four ends of the grate of
brass, to be places for the staves.
EXO 38:6 And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with
brass.
EXO 38:7 And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the
altar, to bear it withal; he made the altar hollow with boards.
EXO 38:8 And he made the laver of brass, and the foot of it of brass,
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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: leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird loose into the open field.
LEV 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean:
and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out
of his tent seven days.
LEV 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair
he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash
his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
LEV 14:10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he lambs without
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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: world, how he may please his wife.
CO1 7:34 There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The
unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy
both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the
things of the world, how she may please her husband.
CO1 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a
snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend
upon the Lord without distraction.
CO1 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let
him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
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