| 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: ISA 18:2 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of
bulrushes upon the waters, saying, Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation
scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning
hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers
have spoiled!
ISA 18:3 All ye inhabitants of the world, and dwellers on the earth,
see ye, when he lifteth up an ensign on the mountains; and when he
bloweth a trumpet, hear ye.
ISA 18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.
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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: Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father's house, to wit,
of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose
number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
CH1 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah;
Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
CH1 7:4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men:
for they had many wives and sons.
CH1 7:5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were
valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and
seven thousand.
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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: LEV 15:21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and
bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
LEV 15:22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash
his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.
LEV 15:23 And if it be on her bed, or on any thing whereon she sitteth,
when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.
LEV 15:24 And if any man lie with her at all, and her flowers be upon
him, he shall be unclean seven days; and all the bed whereon he lieth
shall be unclean.
LEV 15:25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of
the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her
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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: thousand baths.
KI1 7:27 And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of
one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the
height of it.
KI1 7:28 And the work of the bases was on this manner: they had
borders, and the borders were between the ledges:
KI1 7:29 And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions,
oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and
beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.
KI1 7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
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