| 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: open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
KI1 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there
the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
KI1 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length,
and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof:
and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of
cedar.
KI1 6:21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he
made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he
overlaid it with gold.
KI1 6:22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had
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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: household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera
fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;
SA2 19:19 And said unto the king, Let not my lord impute iniquity unto
me, neither do thou remember that which thy servant did perversely the
day that my lord the king went out of Jerusalem, that the king should
take it to his heart.
SA2 19:20 For thy servant doth know that I have sinned: therefore,
behold, I am come the first this day of all the house of Joseph to go
down to meet my lord the king.
SA2 19:21 But Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered and said, Shall not
Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?
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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: are weak, but ye are strong; ye are honourable, but we are despised.
CO1 4:11 Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and
are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwellingplace;
CO1 4:12 And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we
bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:
CO1 4:13 Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the
world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.
CO1 4:14 I write not these things to shame you, but as my beloved sons
I warn you.
CO1 4:15 For though ye have ten thousand instructers in Christ, yet
have ye not many fathers: for in Christ Jesus I have begotten you
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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: land of the Philistines, and unto the border of Egypt: they brought
presents, and served Solomon all the days of his life.
KI1 4:22 And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of
fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
KI1 4:23 Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an
hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, and fatted
fowl.
KI1 4:24 For he had dominion over all the region on this side the
river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the
river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.
KI1 4:25 And Judah and Israel dwelt safely, every man under his vine
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