| 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: because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the
Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.
ISA 2:7 Their land also is full of silver and gold, neither is there
any end of their treasures; their land is also full of horses, neither
is there any end of their chariots:
ISA 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of
their own hands, that which their own fingers have made:
ISA 2:9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth
himself: therefore forgive them not.
ISA 2:10 Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of
the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
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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: prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
JER 12:2 Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow,
yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from
their reins.
JER 12:3 But thou, O LORD, knowest me: thou hast seen me, and tried
mine heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and
prepare them for the day of slaughter.
JER 12:4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field
wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are
consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last
end.
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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: none shall pass through it for ever and ever.
ISA 34:11 But the cormorant and the bittern shall possess it; the owl
also and the raven shall dwell in it: and he shall stretch out upon it
the line of confusion, and the stones of emptiness.
ISA 34:12 They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none
shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
ISA 34:13 And thorns shall come up in her palaces, nettles and brambles
in the fortresses thereof: and it shall be an habitation of dragons, and
a court for owls.
ISA 34:14 The wild beasts of the desert shall also meet with the wild
beasts of the island, and the satyr shall cry to his fellow; the screech
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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: day of his fierce anger.
ISA 13:14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man
taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every
one into his own land.
ISA 13:15 Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every
one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword.
ISA 13:16 Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their
eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished.
ISA 13:17 Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall
not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.
ISA 13:18 Their bows also shall dash the young men to pieces; and they
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