| 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: land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of
Samaria, and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof, and the
oppressed in the midst thereof.
AMO 3:10 For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up
violence and robbery in their palaces.
AMO 3:11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; An adversary there shall be
even round about the land; and he shall bring down thy strength from
thee, and thy palaces shall be spoiled.
AMO 3:12 Thus saith the LORD; As the shepherd taketh out of the mouth
of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear; so shall the children of
Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of a bed, and in
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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: over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
KI1 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake
to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre
wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:
KI1 13:32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against
the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
KI1 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of
the high places.
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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: JON 1:4 But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was
a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.
JON 1:5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his
god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to
lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship;
and he lay, and was fast asleep.
JON 1:6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest
thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think
upon us, that we perish not.
JON 1:7 And they said every one to his fellow, Come, and let us cast
lots, that we may know for whose cause this evil is upon us. So they
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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: every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep,
and gave them into the hand of his sons.
GEN 30:36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and
Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
GEN 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
GEN 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to drink.
GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
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