| 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: do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
SON 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver:
and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
SON 8:10 I am a wall, and my breasts like towers: then was I in his
eyes as one that found favour.
SON 8:11 Solomon had a vineyard at Baalhamon; he let out the vineyard
unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand
pieces of silver.
SON 8:12 My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: thou, O Solomon,
must have a thousand, and those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.
SON 8:13 Thou that dwellest in the gardens, the companions hearken to
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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: bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;
JER 16:4 They shall die of grievous deaths; they shall not be lamented;
neither shall they be buried; but they shall be as dung upon the face of
the earth: and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and
their carcases shall be meat for the fowls of heaven, and for the beasts
of the earth.
JER 16:5 For thus saith the LORD, Enter not into the house of mourning,
neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace
from this people, saith the LORD, even lovingkindness and mercies.
JER 16:6 Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they
shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut
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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: knees.
ISA 66:13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and
ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
ISA 66:14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your
bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be
known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
ISA 66:15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke
with flames of fire.
ISA 66:16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all
flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
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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: my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have
drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink
abundantly, O beloved.
SON 5:2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved
that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops
of the night.
SON 5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my
feet; how shall I defile them?
SON 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my
bowels were moved for him.
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