| 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: punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that
seeketh unto him;
EZE 14:11 That the house of Israel may go no more astray from me,
neither be polluted any more with all their transgressions; but that
they may be my people, and I may be their God, saith the Lord GOD.
EZE 14:12 The word of the LORD came again to me, saying,
EZE 14:13 Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing
grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break
the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will
cut off man and beast from it:
EZE 14:14 Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it,
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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: be unto his brethren.
GEN 9:26 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall
be his servant.
GEN 9:27 God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of
Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.
GEN 9:28 And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.
GEN 9:29 And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years:
and he died.
GEN 10:1 Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham,
and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
GEN 10:2 The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan,
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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: rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that
covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,
LEV 3:10 And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is
by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall
he take away.
LEV 3:11 And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of
the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
LEV 3:12 And if his offering be a goat, then he shall offer it before
the LORD.
LEV 3:13 And he shall lay his hand upon the head of it, and kill it
before the tabernacle of the congregation: and the sons of Aaron shall
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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: GEN 23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
GEN 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession
of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
GEN 23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
GEN 23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the
choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
GEN 23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the children of Heth.
GEN 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
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