| 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: the king saying,
JER 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they
have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon;
and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for there is
no more bread in the city.
JER 38:10 Then the king commanded Ebedmelech the Ethiopian, saying,
Take from hence thirty men with thee, and take up Jeremiah the prophet
out of the dungeon, before he die.
JER 38:11 So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house
of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old
rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.
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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: and I die:
GEN 19:20 Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a
little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my
soul shall live.
GEN 19:21 And he said unto him, See, I have accepted thee concerning
this thing also, that I will not overthrow this city, for the which thou
hast spoken.
GEN 19:22 Haste thee, escape thither; for I cannot do anything till
thou be come thither. Therefore the name of the city was called Zoar.
GEN 19:23 The sun was risen upon the earth when Lot entered into Zoar.
GEN 19:24 Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone
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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: of the children of Israel the tithes which I have given you from them
for your inheritance, then ye shall offer up an heave offering of it for
the LORD, even a tenth part of the tithe.
NUM 18:27 And this your heave offering shall be reckoned unto you, as
though it were the corn of the threshingfloor, and as the fulness of the
winepress.
NUM 18:28 Thus ye also shall offer an heave offering unto the LORD of
all your tithes, which ye receive of the children of Israel; and ye
shall give thereof the LORD'S heave offering to Aaron the priest.
NUM 18:29 Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering of
the LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of
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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: in the sight of this sun.
SA2 12:12 For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this thing before
all Israel, and before the sun.
SA2 12:13 And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the LORD.
And Nathan said unto David, The LORD also hath put away thy sin; thou
shalt not die.
SA2 12:14 Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion
to the enemies of the LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born
unto thee shall surely die.
SA2 12:15 And Nathan departed unto his house. And the LORD struck the
child that Uriah's wife bare unto David, and it was very sick.
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