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: CH2 14:4 And commanded Judah to seek the LORD God of their fathers, and
to do the law and the commandment.
CH2 14:5 Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high
places and the images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.
CH2 14:6 And he built fenced cities in Judah: for the land had rest,
and he had no war in those years; because the LORD had given him rest.
CH2 14:7 Therefore he said unto Judah, Let us build these cities, and
make about them walls, and towers, gates, and bars, while the land is
yet before us; because we have sought the LORD our God, we have sought
him, and he hath given us rest on every side. So they built and
prospered.
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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: that were round about them, and they did not pursue after the sons of
Jacob.
GEN 35:6 So Jacob came to Luz, which is in the land of Canaan, that is,
Bethel, he and all the people that were with him.
GEN 35:7 And he built there an altar, and called the place Elbethel:
because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his
brother.
GEN 35:8 But Deborah Rebekah's nurse died, and she was buried beneath
Bethel under an oak: and the name of it was called Allonbachuth.
GEN 35:9 And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of
Padanaram, and blessed him.
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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: I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and
yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
LUK 15:30 But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy
living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
LUK 15:31 And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all
that I have is thine.
LUK 15:32 It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this
thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.
LUK 16:1 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich
man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had
wasted his goods.
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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: judgments, and do them;
EZE 20:20 And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me
and you, that ye may know that I am the LORD your God.
EZE 20:21 Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked
not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man
do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said,
I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them
in the wilderness.
EZE 20:22 Nevertheless I withdrew mine hand, and wrought for my name's
sake, that it should not be polluted in the sight of the heathen, in
whose sight I brought them forth.
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