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: JOB 31:4 Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
JOB 31:5 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to
deceit;
JOB 31:6 Let me be weighed in an even balance that God may know mine
integrity.
JOB 31:7 If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked
after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
JOB 31:8 Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be
rooted out.
JOB 31:9 If mine heart have been deceived by a woman, or if I have laid
wait at my neighbour's door;
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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: LEV 14:24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass offering,
and the log of oil, and the priest shall wave them for a wave offering
before the LORD:
LEV 14:25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass offering, and the
priest shall take some of the blood of the trespass offering, and put it
upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon
the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot:
LEV 14:26 And the priest shall pour of the oil into the palm of his own
left hand:
LEV 14:27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of
the oil that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD:
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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: planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.
JER 31:6 For there shall be a day, that the watchmen upon the mount
Ephraim shall cry, Arise ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the LORD our
God.
JER 31:7 For thus saith the LORD; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and
shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O
LORD, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
JER 31:8 Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather
them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame,
the woman with child and her that travaileth with child together: a
great company shall return thither.
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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: corrupted more than they in all thy ways.
EZE 16:48 As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not
done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters.
EZE 16:49 Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride,
fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her
daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
EZE 16:50 And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me:
therefore I took them away as I saw good.
EZE 16:51 Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou
hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified
thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.
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