| 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: borders thereof were of the same.
KI1 7:36 For on the plates of the ledges thereof, and on the borders
thereof, he graved cherubims, lions, and palm trees, according to the
proportion of every one, and additions round about.
KI1 7:37 After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one
casting, one measure, and one size.
KI1 7:38 Then made he ten lavers of brass: one laver contained forty
baths: and every laver was four cubits: and upon every one of the ten
bases one laver.
KI1 7:39 And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five
on the left side of the house: and he set the sea on the right side of
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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: sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
JDG 21:8 And they said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel that
came not up to Mizpeh to the LORD? And, behold, there came none to the
camp from Jabeshgilead to the assembly.
JDG 21:9 For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of
the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead there.
JDG 21:10 And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the
valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of
Jabeshgilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the
children.
JDG 21:11 And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly
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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: TH1 2:10 Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and
unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:
TH1 2:11 As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one
of you, as a father doth his children,
TH1 2:12 That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his
kingdom and glory.
TH1 2:13 For this cause also thank we God without ceasing, because,
when ye received the word of God which ye heard of us, ye received it
not as the word of men, but as it is in truth, the word of God, which
effectually worketh also in you that believe.
TH1 2:14 For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God
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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 law of the God of heaven, perfect peace, and at such a time.
EZR 7:13 I make a decree, that all they of the people of Israel, and of
his priests and Levites, in my realm, which are minded of their own
freewill to go up to Jerusalem, go with thee.
EZR 7:14 Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king, and of his seven
counsellors, to enquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the
law of thy God which is in thine hand;
EZR 7:15 And to carry the silver and gold, which the king and his
counsellors have freely offered unto the God of Israel, whose habitation
is in Jerusalem,
EZR 7:16 And all the silver and gold that thou canst find in all the
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