| 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: Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the walls of
Jerusalem were made up, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then
they were very wroth,
NEH 4:8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against
Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
NEH 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
against them day and night, because of them.
NEH 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is
decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the
wall.
NEH 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see,
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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: JER 44:19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured
out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and
pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
JER 44:20 Then Jeremiah said unto all the people, to the men, and to
the women, and to all the people which had given him that answer,
saying,
JER 44:21 The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the
streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your
princes, and the people of the land, did not the LORD remember them, and
came it not into his mind?
JER 44:22 So that the LORD could no longer bear, because of the evil of
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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: CH2 3:12 And one wing of the other cherub was five cubits, reaching to
the wall of the house: and the other wing was five cubits also, joining
to the wing of the other cherub.
CH2 3:13 The wings of these cherubims spread themselves forth twenty
cubits: and they stood on their feet, and their faces were inward.
CH2 3:14 And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and
fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
CH2 3:15 Also he made before the house two pillars of thirty and five
cubits high, and the chapiter that was on the top of each of them was
five cubits.
CH2 3:16 And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on 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: CH2 4:20 Moreover the candlesticks with their lamps, that they should
burn after the manner before the oracle, of pure gold;
CH2 4:21 And the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs, made he of
gold, and that perfect gold;
CH2 4:22 And the snuffers, and the basons, and the spoons, and the
censers, of pure gold: and the entry of the house, the inner doors
thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house of the
temple, were of gold.
CH2 5:1 Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the LORD
was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his
father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the
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