| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from The Tanach: 1_Chronicles 12: 38 (12:39) All these, being men of war, that could order the battle array, came with a whole heart to Hebron, to make David king over all Israel; and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king.
1_Chronicles 12: 39 (12:40) And they were there with David three days, eating and drinking; for their brethren had made preparation for them.
1_Chronicles 12: 40 (12:41) Moreover they that were nigh unto them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought bread on asses, and on camels, and on mules, and on oxen, victual of meal, cakes of figs, and clusters of raisins, and wine, and oil, and oxen, and sheep in abundance; for there was joy in Israel.
1_Chronicles 13: 1 And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader.
1_Chronicles 13: 2 And David said unto all the assembly of Israel: 'If it seem good unto you, and if it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad everywhere unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them to the priests and Levites that are in their cities that have open land about them, that they may gather themselves unto us;
1_Chronicles 13: 3 and let us bring back the ark of our God to us; for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul.'
1_Chronicles 13: 4 And all the assembly said that they would do so; for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
1_Chronicles 13: 5 So David assembled all Israel together, from Shihor the brook of Egypt even unto the entrance of Hamath, to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim.
The Tanach |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon: If bishops have any power of the sword, that power they have,
not as bishops, by the commission of the Gospel, but by human
law having received it of kings and emperors for the civil
administration of what is theirs. This, however, is another
office than the ministry of the Gospel.
When, therefore, the question is concerning the jurisdiction
of bishops, civil authority must be distinguished from
ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Again, according to the Gospel
or, as they say, by divine right, there belongs to the bishops
as bishops, that is, to those to whom has been committed the
ministry of the Word and the Sacraments, no jurisdiction
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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 Glinda of Oz by L. Frank Baum: beautiful forms, clothed in fleecy, trailing garments
of gray that could scarcely be distinguished from the
mist. Their hair was mist-color, too; only their
gleaming arms and sweet, pallid faces proved they were
living, intelligent creatures answering the call of a
sister fairy.
Like sea nymphs they rested on the bosom of the
clouds, their eyes turned questioningly upon the two
girls who stood upon the bank. One came quite near and
to her Ozma said:
"Will you please take us to the opposite hillside? We
Glinda of Oz |
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 The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott: supply their very moderate wants. David often received
gratuities from strangers, which he never asked, never refused,
and never seemed to consider as an obligation. He had a right,
indeed, to regard himself as one of Nature's paupers, to whom she
gave a title to be maintained by his kind, even by that deformity
which closed against him all ordinary ways of supporting himself
by his own labour. Besides, a bag was suspended in the mill for
David Ritchie's benefit; and those who were carrying home a
melder of meal, seldom failed to add a GOWPEN [Handful] to the
alms-bag of the deformed cripple. In short, David had no
occasion for money, save to purchase snuff, his only luxury, in
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