| 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: river, ill favoured and leanfleshed; and stood by the other kine upon
the brink of the river.
GEN 41:4 And the ill favoured and leanfleshed kine did eat up the seven
well favoured and fat kine. So Pharaoh awoke.
GEN 41:5 And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven
ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.
GEN 41:6 And, behold, seven thin ears and blasted with the east wind
sprung up after them.
GEN 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
GEN 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
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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: indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
JOB 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
JOB 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
JOB 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little,
JOB 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death;
JOB 10:22 A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of
death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.
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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: pledge of him for a strange woman.
PRO 27:14 He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early
in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.
PRO 27:15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious
woman are alike.
PRO 27:16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his
right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
PRO 27:17 Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of
his friend.
PRO 27:18 Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he
that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.
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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: saying, It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house:
LEV 14:36 Then the priest shall command that they empty the house,
before the priest go into it to see the plague, that all that is in the
house be not made unclean: and afterward the priest shall go in to see
the house:
LEV 14:37 And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague
be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes, greenish or reddish,
which in sight are lower than the wall;
LEV 14:38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the
house, and shut up the house seven days:
LEV 14:39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day, and shall
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