| 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: Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
GEN 30:37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and
chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
GEN 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to drink.
GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
GEN 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;
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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: lift up my soul unto thee.
PSA 143:9 Deliver me, O LORD, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to
hide me.
PSA 143:10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is
good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
PSA 143:11 Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name's sake: for thy
righteousness' sake bring my soul out of trouble.
PSA 143:12 And of thy mercy cut off mine enemies, and destroy all them
that afflict my soul: for I am thy servant.
PSA 144:1 Blessed be the LORD my strength which teacheth my hands to
war, and my fingers to fight:
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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: written, How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of
peace, and bring glad tidings of good things!
ROM 10:16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Esaias saith,
Lord, who hath believed our report?
ROM 10:17 So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of
God.
ROM 10:18 But I say, Have they not heard? Yes verily, their sound went
into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world.
ROM 10:19 But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will
provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish
nation I will anger you.
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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: two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same,
according to the six branches going out of it.
EXO 37:22 Their knops and their branches were of the same: all of it
was one beaten work of pure gold.
EXO 37:23 And he made his seven lamps, and his snuffers, and his
snuffdishes, of pure gold.
EXO 37:24 Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels
thereof.
EXO 37:25 And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of
it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and
two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.
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