| 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: transgress against me: I will bring them forth out of the country where
they sojourn, and they shall not enter into the land of Israel: and ye
shall know that I am the LORD.
EZE 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; Go
ye, serve ye every one his idols, and hereafter also, if ye will not
hearken unto me: but pollute ye my holy name no more with your gifts,
and with your idols.
EZE 20:40 For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of
Israel, saith the Lord GOD, there shall all the house of Israel, all of
them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I
require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all
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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: house of the forest of Lebanon.
CH2 9:17 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with pure gold.
CH2 9:18 And there were six steps to the throne, with a footstool of
gold, which were fastened to the throne, and stays on each side of the
sitting place, and two lions standing by the stays:
CH2 9:19 And twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other
upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
CH2 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of
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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: JER 11:17 For the LORD of hosts, that planted thee, hath pronounced
evil against thee, for the evil of the house of Israel and of the house
of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
in offering incense unto Baal.
JER 11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
JER 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut
him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered.
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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: ISA 16:8 For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah:
the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof,
they are come even unto Jazer, they wandered through the wilderness: her
branches are stretched out, they are gone over the sea.
ISA 16:9 Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of
Sibmah: I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for the
shouting for thy summer fruits and for thy harvest is fallen.
ISA 16:10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful
field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall
there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their
presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.
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