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: GEN 23:13 And he spake unto Ephron in the audience of the people of the
land, saying, But if thou wilt give it, I pray thee, hear me: I will
give thee money for the field; take it of me, and I will bury my dead
there.
GEN 23:14 And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,
GEN 23:15 My lord, hearken unto me: the land is worth four hundred
shekels of silver; what is that betwixt me and thee? bury therefore thy
dead.
GEN 23:16 And Abraham hearkened unto Ephron; and Abraham weighed to
Ephron the silver, which he had named in the audience of the sons of
Heth, four hundred shekels of silver, current money with the merchant.
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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: they should go.
NEH 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them
from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good
statutes and commandments:
NEH 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst
them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
NEH 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and
broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and
promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou
hadst sworn to give them.
NEH 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
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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: KI1 6:36 And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone,
and a row of cedar beams.
KI1 6:37 In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD
laid, in the month Zif:
KI1 6:38 And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the
eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof,
and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in
building it.
KI1 7:1 But Solomon was building his own house thirteen years, and he
finished all his house.
KI1 7:2 He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length
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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: sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:
LEV 6:4 Then it shall be, because he hath sinned, and is guilty, that
he shall restore that which he took violently away, or the thing which
he hath deceitfully gotten, or that which was delivered him to keep, or
the lost thing which he found,
LEV 6:5 Or all that about which he hath sworn falsely; he shall even
restore it in the principal, and shall add the fifth part more thereto,
and give it unto him to whom it appertaineth, in the day of his trespass
offering.
LEV 6:6 And he shall bring his trespass offering unto the LORD, a ram
without blemish out of the flock, with thy estimation, for a trespass
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