| 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: fight with Amalek: to morrow I will stand on the top of the hill with
the rod of God in mine hand.
EXO 17:10 So Joshua did as Moses had said to him, and fought with
Amalek: and Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
EXO 17:11 And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel
prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
EXO 17:12 But Moses hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it
under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands,
the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands
were steady until the going down of the sun.
EXO 17:13 And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of
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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: and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.
CH1 4:41 And these written by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of
Judah, and smote their tents, and the habitations that were found there,
and destroyed them utterly unto this day, and dwelt in their rooms:
because there was pasture there for their flocks.
CH1 4:42 And some of them, even of the sons of Simeon, five hundred
men, went to mount Seir, having for their captains Pelatiah, and
Neariah, and Rephaiah, and Uzziel, the sons of Ishi.
CH1 4:43 And they smote the rest of the Amalekites that were escaped,
and dwelt there unto this day.
CH1 5:1 Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the
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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: they went both of them together.
GEN 22:7 And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father:
and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the
wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?
GEN 22:8 And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for
a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.
GEN 22:9 And they came to the place which God had told him of; and
Abraham built an altar there, and laid the wood in order, and bound
Isaac his son, and laid him on the altar upon the wood.
GEN 22:10 And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to
slay his son.
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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: vessels of gold, and raiment, harness, and spices, horses, and mules, a
rate year by year.
CH2 9:25 And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots,
and twelve thousand horsemen; whom he bestowed in the chariot cities,
and with the king at Jerusalem.
CH2 9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
CH2 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in
abundance.
CH2 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
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