| 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: GEN 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession
of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
GEN 23:5 And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,
GEN 23:6 Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the
choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from
thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.
GEN 23:7 And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the
land, even to the children of Heth.
GEN 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I
should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to
Ephron the son of Zohar,
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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 there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that
my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this
day?
SA1 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the
servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
SA1 22:10 And he enquired of the LORD for him, and gave him victuals,
and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
SA1 22:11 Then the king sent to call Ahimelech the priest, the son of
Ahitub, and all his father's house, the priests that were in Nob: and
they came all of them to the king.
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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: voice of them that weep.
JOB 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon
a maid?
JOB 31:2 For what portion of God is there from above? and what
inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
JOB 31:3 Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to
the workers of iniquity?
JOB 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
JOB 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit;
JOB 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine
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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: JDG 21:15 And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the
LORD had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.
JDG 21:16 Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for
wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of
Benjamin?
JDG 21:17 And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that be
escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not destroyed out of Israel.
JDG 21:18 Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters: for the
children of Israel have sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife
to Benjamin.
JDG 21:19 Then they said, Behold, there is a feast of the LORD in
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