| 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: but he sent me.
JOH 8:43 Why do ye not understand my speech? even because ye cannot
hear my word.
JOH 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father
ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the
truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
JOH 8:45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not.
JOH 8:46 Which of you convinceth me of sin? And if I say the truth, why
do ye not believe me?
JOH 8:47 He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them
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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: men's counsel that they gave him;
KI1 12:14 And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying,
My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father
also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
KI1 12:15 Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the
cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the
LORD spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.
KI1 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king hearkened not unto them,
the people answered the king, saying, What portion have we in David?
neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: to your tents, O
Israel: now see to thine own house, David. So Israel departed unto their
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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: board one cubit and a half.
EXO 36:22 One board had two tenons, equally distant one from another:
thus did he make for all the boards of the tabernacle.
EXO 36:23 And he made boards for the tabernacle; twenty boards for the
south side southward:
EXO 36:24 And forty sockets of silver he made under the twenty boards;
two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under
another board for his two tenons.
EXO 36:25 And for the other side of the tabernacle, which is toward the
north corner, he made twenty boards,
EXO 36:26 And their forty sockets of silver; two sockets under one
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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: from heaven, and saying, Hew the tree down, and destroy it; yet leave
the stump of the roots thereof in the earth, even with a band of iron
and brass, in the tender grass of the field; and let it be wet with the
dew of heaven, and let his portion be with the beasts of the field, till
seven times pass over him;
DAN 4:24 This is the interpretation, O king, and this is the decree of
the most High, which is come upon my lord the king:
DAN 4:25 That they shall drive thee from men, and thy dwelling shall be
with the beasts of the field, and they shall make thee to eat grass as
oxen, and they shall wet thee with the dew of heaven, and seven times
shall pass over thee, till thou know that the most High ruleth in the
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