| 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: at the first, and found written therein,
NEH 7:6 These are the children of the province, that went up out of the
captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the
king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to
Judah, every one unto his city;
NEH 7:7 Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah,
Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The
number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
NEH 7:8 The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and
two.
NEH 7:9 The children of Shephatiah, three hundred seventy and two.
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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: shall be holy unto you.
EXO 30:33 Whosoever compoundeth any like it, or whosoever putteth any
of it upon a stranger, shall even be cut off from his people.
EXO 30:34 And the LORD said unto Moses, Take unto thee sweet spices,
stacte, and onycha, and galbanum; these sweet spices with pure
frankincense: of each shall there be a like weight:
EXO 30:35 And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art
of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:
EXO 30:36 And thou shalt beat some of it very small, and put of it
before the testimony in the tabernacle of the congregation, where I will
meet with thee: it shall be unto you most holy.
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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: hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
GEN 31:9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given
them to me.
GEN 31:10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived,
that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams
which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
GEN 31:11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob:
And I said, Here am I.
GEN 31:12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams
which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I
have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
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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: come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
ISA 64:2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters
to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations
may tremble at thy presence!
ISA 64:3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou
camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
ISA 64:4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor
perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee,
what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
ISA 64:5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness,
those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we
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