| 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: and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man
Absalom.
SA2 18:13 Otherwise I should have wrought falsehood against mine own
life: for there is no matter hid from the king, and thou thyself
wouldest have set thyself against me.
SA2 18:14 Then said Joab, I may not tarry thus with thee. And he took
three darts in his hand, and thrust them through the heart of Absalom,
while he was yet alive in the midst of the oak.
SA2 18:15 And ten young men that bare Joab's armour compassed about and
smote Absalom, and slew him.
SA2 18:16 And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from
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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: Hebrew, which hath been sold unto thee; and when he hath served thee six
years, thou shalt let him go free from thee: but your fathers hearkened
not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
JER 34:15 And ye were now turned, and had done right in my sight, in
proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbour; and ye had made a
covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:
JER 34:16 But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his
servant, and every man his handmaid, whom he had set at liberty at their
pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you
for servants and for handmaids.
JER 34:17 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Ye have not hearkened unto me,
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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: scarlet, and fine twined linen; as the LORD commanded Moses.
EXO 39:6 And they wrought onyx stones inclosed in ouches of gold,
graven, as signets are graven, with the names of the children of Israel.
EXO 39:7 And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they
should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses.
EXO 39:8 And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of
the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined
linen.
EXO 39:9 It was foursquare; they made the breastplate double: a span
was the length thereof, and a span the breadth thereof, being doubled.
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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: house of the forest of Lebanon.
CH2 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with pure gold.
CH2 9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the
sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
CH2 9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
CH2 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of
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