| 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: them; and this house, which I have hallowed for my name, will I cast out
of my sight; and Israel shall be a proverb and a byword among all
people:
KI1 9:8 And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it
shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the
LORD done thus unto this land, and to this house?
KI1 9:9 And they shall answer, Because they forsook the LORD their God,
who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
KI1 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
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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: LAM 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
LAM 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my
chain heavy.
LAM 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
LAM 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths
crooked.
LAM 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in
secret places.
LAM 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
made me desolate.
LAM 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
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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: there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league
together.
KI1 5:13 And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy
was thirty thousand men.
KI1 5:14 And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses:
a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was
over the levy.
KI1 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,
and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
KI1 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the
work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that
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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: JOB 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his
sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did
eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted
him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also
gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold.
JOB 42:12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his
beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels,
and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses.
JOB 42:13 He had also seven sons and three daughters.
JOB 42:14 And he called the name of the first, Jemima; and the name of
the second, Kezia; and the name of the third, Kerenhappuch.
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