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: they said, We know him.
GEN 29:6 And he said unto them, Is he well? And they said, He is well:
and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
GEN 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and
feed them.
GEN 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we
water the sheep.
GEN 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep; for she kept 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: pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must
be awaked.
KI1 18:28 And they cried aloud, and cut themselves after their manner
with knives and lancets, till the blood gushed out upon them.
KI1 18:29 And it came to pass, when midday was past, and they
prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that
there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.
KI1 18:30 And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And
all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar of the LORD
that was broken down.
KI1 18:31 And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of 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: NEH 12:45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their
God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of
David, and of Solomon his son.
NEH 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of
the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
NEH 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day
his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the
Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron.
NEH 13:1 On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of
the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the
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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: by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was
not given unto him to wife.
GEN 38:15 When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because
she had covered her face.
GEN 38:16 And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray
thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his
daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest
come in unto me?
GEN 38:17 And he said, I will send thee a kid from the flock. And she
said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?
GEN 38:18 And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? And she said, Thy
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