| 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: water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:
my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
LAM 1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort
her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries
should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among
them.
LAM 1:18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my
virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
LAM 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and
mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat
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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: and evil;
DEU 30:16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to
walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his
judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God
shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
DEU 30:17 But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;
DEU 30:18 I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish,
and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou
passest over Jordan to go to possess it.
DEU 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that
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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: SA1 9:7 Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what
shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there
is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?
SA1 9:8 And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have
here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to
the man of God, to tell us our way.
SA1 9:9 (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to enquire of God, thus
he spake, Come, and let us go to the seer: for he that is now called a
Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)
SA1 9:10 Then said Saul to his servant, Well said; come, let us go. So
they went unto the city where the man of God was.
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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: you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the
inheritance of the LORD?
SA2 21:4 And the Gibeonites said unto him, We will have no silver nor
gold of Saul, nor of his house; neither for us shalt thou kill any man
in Israel. And he said, What ye shall say, that will I do for you.
SA2 21:5 And they answered the king, The man that consumed us, and that
devised against us that we should be destroyed from remaining in any of
the coasts of Israel,
SA2 21:6 Let seven men of his sons be delivered unto us, and we will
hang them up unto the LORD in Gibeah of Saul, whom the LORD did choose.
And the king said, I will give them.
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