| 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: that every male of you be circumcised;
GEN 34:16 Then will we give our daughters unto you, and we will take
your daughters to us, and we will dwell with you, and we will become one
people.
GEN 34:17 But if ye will not hearken unto us, to be circumcised; then
will we take our daughter, and we will be gone.
GEN 34:18 And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor's son.
GEN 34:19 And the young man deferred not to do the thing, because he
had delight in Jacob's daughter: and he was more honourable than all the
house of his father.
GEN 34:20 And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their
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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: PSA 35:20 For they speak not peace: but they devise deceitful matters
against them that are quiet in the land.
PSA 35:21 Yea, they opened their mouth wide against me, and said, Aha,
aha, our eye hath seen it.
PSA 35:22 This thou hast seen, O LORD: keep not silence: O Lord, be not
far from me.
PSA 35:23 Stir up thyself, and awake to my judgment, even unto my
cause, my God and my Lord.
PSA 35:24 Judge me, O LORD my God, according to thy righteousness; and
let them not rejoice over me.
PSA 35:25 Let them not say in their hearts, Ah, so would we have it:
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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: is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away
this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar,
that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
JOS 22:17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are
not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the
congregation of the LORD,
JOS 22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD?
and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow
he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
JOS 22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean,
then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein
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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: that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the
threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
CH1 21:19 And David went up at the saying of Gad, which he spake in the
name of the LORD.
CH1 21:20 And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons
with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
CH1 21:21 And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and
went out of the threshingfloor, and bowed himself to David with his face
to the ground.
CH1 21:22 Then David said to Ornan, Grant me the place of this
threshingfloor, that I may build an altar therein unto the LORD: thou
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