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: HOS 9:13 Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but
Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.
HOS 9:14 Give them, O LORD: what wilt thou give? give them a
miscarrying womb and dry breasts.
HOS 9:15 All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for
the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I
will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
HOS 9:16 Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no
fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved
fruit of their womb.
HOS 9:17 My God will cast them away, because they did not hearken unto
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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: hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that
are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye
them that know them not.
EZR 7:26 And whosoever will not do the law of thy God, and the law of
the king, let judgment be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto
death, or to banishment, or to confiscation of goods, or to
imprisonment.
EZR 7:27 Blessed be the LORD God of our fathers, which hath put such a
thing as this in the king's heart, to beautify the house of the LORD
which is in Jerusalem:
EZR 7:28 And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his
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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: half thine house, I will not go in with thee, neither will I eat bread
nor drink water in this place:
KI1 13:9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD, saying, Eat
no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou
camest.
KI1 13:10 So he went another way, and returned not by the way that he
came to Bethel.
KI1 13:11 Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came
and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in
Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also
to their father.
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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: hardened their neck: they did worse than their fathers.
JER 7:27 Therefore thou shalt speak all these words unto them; but they
will not hearken to thee: thou shalt also call unto them; but they will
not answer thee.
JER 7:28 But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth
not the voice of the LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is
perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
JER 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up
a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken
the generation of his wrath.
JER 7:30 For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith
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