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: incense upon the hills, under oaks and poplars and elms, because the
shadow thereof is good: therefore your daughters shall commit whoredom,
and your spouses shall commit adultery.
HOS 4:14 I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom,
nor your spouses when they commit adultery: for themselves are separated
with whores, and they sacrifice with harlots: therefore the people that
doth not understand shall fall.
HOS 4:15 Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah
offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Bethaven, nor
swear, The LORD liveth.
HOS 4:16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD
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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: temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
JOH 8:21 Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, and ye shall
seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
JOH 8:22 Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith,
Whither I go, ye cannot come.
JOH 8:23 And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above:
ye are of this world; I am not of this world.
JOH 8:24 I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for
if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
JOH 8:25 Then said they unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto
them, Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning.
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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: ISA 5:29 Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young
lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry
it away safe, and none shall deliver it.
ISA 5:30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring
of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow,
and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
ISA 6:1 In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the LORD sitting
upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
ISA 6:2 Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with
twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with
twain he did fly.
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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: have done perversely, we have committed wickedness;
KI1 8:48 And so return unto thee with all their heart, and with all
their soul, in the land of their enemies, which led them away captive,
and pray unto thee toward their land, which thou gavest unto their
fathers, the city which thou hast chosen, and the house which I have
built for thy name:
KI1 8:49 Then hear thou their prayer and their supplication in heaven
thy dwelling place, and maintain their cause,
KI1 8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all
their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and
give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may
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