| The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Tanach: Isaiah 34: 8 For the LORD hath a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the controversy of Zion.
Isaiah 34: 9 And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
Isaiah 34: 10 It shall not be quenched night nor day, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever; from generation to generation it shall lie waste: none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
Isaiah 34: 11 But the pelican and the bittern shall possess it, and the owl and the raven shall dwell therein; and He shall stretch over it the line of confusion, and the plummet of emptiness.
Isaiah 34: 12 As for her nobles, none shall be there to be called to the kingdom; and all her princes shall be nothing.
Isaiah 34: 13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of wild-dogs, an enclosure for ostriches.
Isaiah 34: 14 And the wild-cats shall meet with the jackals, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall repose there, and shall find her a place of rest.
Isaiah 34: 15 There shall the arrowsnake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and brood under her shadow; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.
Isaiah 34: 16 Seek ye out of the book of the LORD, and read; no one of these shall be missing, none shall want her mate; for My mouth it hath commanded, and the breath thereof it hath gathered them.
Isaiah 34: 17 And He hath cast the lot for them, and His hand hath divided it unto them by line; they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.
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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 The Large Catechism by Dr. Martin Luther: invent adroit devices and deceitful artifices (such as now are daily
most ingeniously contrived) as though they were derived from the law
codes; yea, we even dare impertinently to refer to it, and boast of it,
and will not have it called rascality, but shrewdness and caution. In
this lawyers and jurists assist, who twist and stretch the law to suit
it to their cause, stress words and use them for a subterfuge,
irrespective of equity or their neighbor's necessity. And, in short,
whoever is the most expert and cunning in these affairs finds most help
in law, as they themselves say: Vigilantibus iura subveniunt [that is,
The laws favor the watchful].
This last commandment therefore is given not for rogues in the eyes of
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