| 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: them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out
of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
people:
KI1 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
KI1 9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
KI1 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
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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: iniquities, and mourn one toward another.
EZE 24:24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a sign: according to all that he
hath done shall ye do: and when this cometh, ye shall know that I am the
Lord GOD.
EZE 24:25 Also, thou son of man, shall it not be in the day when I take
from them their strength, the joy of their glory, the desire of their
eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their
daughters,
EZE 24:26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to
cause thee to hear it with thine ears?
EZE 24:27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is
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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: manner of the women, (for so were the days of their purifications
accomplished, to wit, six months with oil of myrrh, and six months with
sweet odours, and with other things for the purifying of the women;)
EST 2:13 Then thus came every maiden unto the king; whatsoever she
desired was given her to go with her out of the house of the women unto
the king's house.
EST 2:14 In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into
the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's
chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no
more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by
name.
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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: Jeremiah to Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, saying,
JER 39:12 Take him, and look well to him, and do him no harm; but do
unto him even as he shall say unto thee.
JER 39:13 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard sent, and
Nebushasban, Rabsaris, and Nergalsharezer, Rabmag, and all the king of
Babylon's princes;
JER 39:14 Even they sent, and took Jeremiah out of the court of the
prison, and committed him unto Gedaliah the son of Ahikam the son of
Shaphan, that he should carry him home: so he dwelt among the people.
JER 39:15 Now the word of the LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was
shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
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