| 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: JER 35:8 Thus have we obeyed the voice of Jonadab the son of Rechab our
father in all that he hath charged us, to drink no wine all our days,
we, our wives, our sons, nor our daughters;
JER 35:9 Nor to build houses for us to dwell in: neither have we
vineyard, nor field, nor seed:
JER 35:10 But we have dwelt in tents, and have obeyed, and done
according to all that Jonadab our father commanded us.
JER 35:11 But it came to pass, when Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon came
up into the land, that we said, Come, and let us go to Jerusalem for
fear of the army of the Chaldeans, and for fear of the army of the
Syrians: so we dwell at Jerusalem.
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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 mocked them.
CH2 30:11 Nevertheless divers of Asher and Manasseh and of Zebulun
humbled themselves, and came to Jerusalem.
CH2 30:12 Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to
do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the
LORD.
CH2 30:13 And there assembled at Jerusalem much people to keep the
feast of unleavened bread in the second month, a very great
congregation.
CH2 30:14 And they arose and took away the altars that were in
Jerusalem, and all the altars for incense took they away, and cast them
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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: a desolation without an inhabitant.
JER 51:30 The mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight, they have
remained in their holds: their might hath failed; they became as women:
they have burned her dwellingplaces; her bars are broken.
JER 51:31 One post shall run to meet another, and one messenger to meet
another, to shew the king of Babylon that his city is taken at one end,
JER 51:32 And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have
burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.
JER 51:33 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; The
daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
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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: Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of
Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene,
LUK 3:2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came
unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.
LUK 3:3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the
baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;
LUK 3:4 As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the
prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye
the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.
LUK 3:5 Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall
be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough
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