| 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 22:23 And Bethuel begat Rebekah: these eight Milcah did bear to
Nahor, Abraham's brother.
GEN 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also
Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
GEN 23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
GEN 23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
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
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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: have gone to search it, is a land that eateth up the inhabitants
thereof; and all the people that we saw in it are men of a great
stature.
NUM 13:33 And there we saw the giants, the sons of Anak, which come of
the giants: and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were
in their sight.
NUM 14:1 And all the congregation lifted up their voice, and cried; and
the people wept that night.
NUM 14:2 And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and
against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that
we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this
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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: afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
GEN 10:19 And the border of the Canaanites was from Sidon, as thou
comest to Gerar, unto Gaza; as thou goest, unto Sodom, and Gomorrah, and
Admah, and Zeboim, even unto Lasha.
GEN 10:20 These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their
tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.
GEN 10:21 Unto Shem also, the father of all the children of Eber, the
brother of Japheth the elder, even to him were children born.
GEN 10:22 The children of Shem; Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and
Lud, and Aram.
GEN 10:23 And the children of Aram; Uz, and Hul, and Gether, and Mash.
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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: both out of the plain country round about Jerusalem, and from the
villages of Netophathi;
NEH 12:29 Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba
and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about
Jerusalem.
NEH 12:30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves, and
purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.
NEH 12:31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall, and
appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks, whereof one went
on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung gate:
NEH 12:32 And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of
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