| 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: EZR 5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants
of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded
these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
EZR 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into
Babylon.
EZR 5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same
king Cyrus made a decree to build this house of God.
EZR 5:14 And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house of God,
which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was in Jerusalem, 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: EXO 35:29 The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the
LORD, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for
all manner of work, which the LORD had commanded to be made by the hand
of Moses.
EXO 35:30 And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the LORD
hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the
tribe of Judah;
EXO 35:31 And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in
understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;
EXO 35:32 And to devise curious works, to work in gold, and in silver,
and in brass,
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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: pestilence, or famine, we stand before this house, and in thy presence,
(for thy name is in this house,) and cry unto thee in our affliction,
then thou wilt hear and help.
CH2 20:10 And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount
Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of
the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;
CH2 20:11 Behold, I say, how they reward us, to come to cast us out of
thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.
CH2 20:12 O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might
against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what
to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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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: our transgressions from us.
PSA 103:13 Like as a father pitieth his children, so the LORD pitieth
them that fear him.
PSA 103:14 For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.
PSA 103:15 As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field,
so he flourisheth.
PSA 103:16 For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place
thereof shall know it no more.
PSA 103:17 But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting
upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
PSA 103:18 To such as keep his covenant, and to those that remember his
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