| 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: KI1 7:45 And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these
vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house of the LORD,
were of bright brass.
KI1 7:46 In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay
ground between Succoth and Zarthan.
KI1 7:47 And Solomon left all the vessels unweighed, because they were
exceeding many: neither was the weight of the brass found out.
KI1 7:48 And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house
of the LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the
shewbread was,
KI1 7:49 And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and
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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: all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
ISA 38:14 Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a
dove: mine eyes fail with looking upward: O LORD, I am oppressed;
undertake for me.
ISA 38:15 What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself
hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my
soul.
ISA 38:16 O LORD, by these things men live, and in all these things is
the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.
ISA 38:17 Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in
love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast
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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: golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out
of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes,
his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
DAN 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the
temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his
princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
DAN 5:4 They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver,
of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
DAN 5:5 In the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote
over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king's
palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
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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: GEN 46:22 These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all
the souls were fourteen.
GEN 46:23 And the sons of Dan; Hushim.
GEN 46:24 And the sons of Naphtali; Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and
Shillem.
GEN 46:25 These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel
his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
GEN 46:26 All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out
of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore
and six;
GEN 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were
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