| 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: to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
KI1 18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it:
Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
KI1 18:7 And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he
knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?
KI1 18:8 And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah
is here.
KI1 18:9 And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver
thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?
KI1 18:10 As the LORD thy God liveth, there is no nation or kingdom,
whither my lord hath not sent to seek thee: and when they said, He is
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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: whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy
shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine
flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:
NUM 7:20 One spoon of gold of ten shekels, full of incense:
NUM 7:21 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
NUM 7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
NUM 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of
Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
NUM 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
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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: troop suddenly upon them: for they have digged a pit to take me, and hid
snares for my feet.
JER 18:23 Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay
me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy
sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in
the time of thine anger.
JER 19:1 Thus saith the LORD, Go and get a potter's earthen bottle, and
take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;
JER 19:2 And go forth unto the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is by
the entry of the east gate, and proclaim there the words that I shall
tell thee,
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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: JER 46:21 Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted
bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together:
they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon
them, and the time of their visitation.
JER 46:22 The voice thereof shall go like a serpent; for they shall
march with an army, and come against her with axes, as hewers of wood.
JER 46:23 They shall cut down her forest, saith the LORD, though it
cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are
innumerable.
JER 46:24 The daughter of Egypt shall be confounded; she shall be
delivered into the hand of the people of the north.
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