| 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: with meat;
PRO 30:23 For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that
is heir to her mistress.
PRO 30:24 There be four things which are little upon the earth, but
they are exceeding wise:
PRO 30:25 The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat
in the summer;
PRO 30:26 The conies are but a feeble folk, yet make they their houses
in the rocks;
PRO 30:27 The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by
bands;
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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: GEN 13:11 Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed
east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
GEN 13:12 Abram dwelled in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelled in the
cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.
GEN 13:13 But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD
exceedingly.
GEN 13:14 And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated
from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art
northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:
GEN 13:15 For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it,
and to thy seed for ever.
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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: Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a
swift dromedary traversing her ways;
JER 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind
at her pleasure; in her occasion who can turn her away? all they that
seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find her.
JER 2:25 Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from
thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved
strangers, and after them will I go.
JER 2:26 As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of
Israel ashamed; they, their kings, their princes, and their priests, and
their prophets.
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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: the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the
remnant of Joseph.
AMO 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the LORD, saith thus;
Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways,
Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as
are skilful of lamentation to wailing.
AMO 5:17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing: for I will pass through
thee, saith the LORD.
AMO 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is
it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
AMO 5:19 As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went
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