| 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: closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.
JON 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her
bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from
corruption, O LORD my God.
JON 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my
prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
JON 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.
JON 2:9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving;
I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the LORD.
JON 2:10 And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah
upon the dry land.
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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: commandments;
LEV 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your soul abhor my
judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break
my covenant:
LEV 26:16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you
terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes,
and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your
enemies shall eat it.
LEV 26:17 And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain
before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye
shall flee when none pursueth you.
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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: it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
GEN 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow
down before thee.
GEN 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone
up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall
rouse him up?
GEN 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of
the people be.
GEN 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
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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: NUM 6:10 And on the eighth day he shall bring two turtles, or two young
pigeons, to the priest, to the door of the tabernacle of the
congregation:
NUM 6:11 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the
other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he
sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.
NUM 6:12 And he shall consecrate unto the LORD the days of his
separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass
offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his
separation was defiled.
NUM 6:13 And this is the law of the Nazarite, when the days of his
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