| 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: KI1 13:18 He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an
angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD, saying, Bring him back with
thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he
lied unto him.
KI1 13:19 So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and
drank water.
KI1 13:20 And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word
of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
KI1 13:21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah,
saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth
of the LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God
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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: the Amorites the land that was on this side Jordan, from the river of
Arnon unto mount Hermon;
DEU 3:9 (Which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion; and the Amorites call
it Shenir;)
DEU 3:10 All the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan,
unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
DEU 3:11 For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants;
behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
DEU 3:12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer,
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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: power with him,) unto Hezekiah king of Judah, and unto all Judah that
were at Jerusalem, saying,
CH2 32:10 Thus saith Sennacherib king of Assyria, Whereon do ye trust,
that ye abide in the siege in Jerusalem?
CH2 32:11 Doth not Hezekiah persuade you to give over yourselves to die
by famine and by thirst, saying, The LORD our God shall deliver us out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
CH2 32:12 Hath not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his
altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, Ye shall worship
before one altar, and burn incense upon it?
CH2 32:13 Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the
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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: they may not understand one another's speech.
GEN 11:8 So the LORD scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of
all the earth: and they left off to build the city.
GEN 11:9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did
there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the
LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
GEN 11:10 These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years
old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:
GEN 11:11 And Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years,
and begat sons and daughters.
GEN 11:12 And Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah:
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