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: even that he hath.
MAT 13:13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing
see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
MAT 13:14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith,
By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall
see, and shall not perceive:
MAT 13:15 For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are
dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they
should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should
understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal
them.
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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: the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the
vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the
congregation,
EXO 39:41 The cloths of service to do service in the holy place, and
the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and his sons' garments, to
minister in the priest's office.
EXO 39:42 According to all that the LORD commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel made all the work.
EXO 39:43 And Moses did look upon all the work, and, behold, they had
done it as the LORD had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses
blessed them.
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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: that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.
ISA 37:27 Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were
dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the
green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it
be grown up.
ISA 37:28 But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in,
and thy rage against me.
ISA 37:29 Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into
mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in
thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.
ISA 37:30 And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year
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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: didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight of the LORD?
SA1 15:20 And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice of
the LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought
Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
SA1 15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and oxen, the chief
of the things which should have been utterly destroyed, to sacrifice
unto the LORD thy God in Gilgal.
SA1 15:22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt
offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold,
to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
SA1 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness
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