| 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: the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.
JER 20:14 Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein
my mother bare me be blessed.
JER 20:15 Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A
man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
JER 20:16 And let that man be as the cities which the LORD overthrew,
and repented not: and let him hear the cry in the morning, and the
shouting at noontide;
JER 20:17 Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might
have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.
JER 20:18 Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and
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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: wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha,
Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence
of Ahasuerus the king,
EST 1:11 To bring Vashti the queen before the king with the crown
royal, to shew the people and the princes her beauty: for she was fair
to look on.
EST 1:12 But the queen Vashti refused to come at the king's commandment
by his chamberlains: therefore was the king very wroth, and his anger
burned in him.
EST 1:13 Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for
so was the king's manner toward all that knew law and judgment:
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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: LAM 1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because
of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
LAM 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
LAM 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
LAM 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
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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: heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.
SA1 14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over unto these men,
and we will discover ourselves unto them.
SA1 14:9 If they say thus unto us, Tarry until we come to you; then we
will stand still in our place, and will not go up unto them.
SA1 14:10 But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up:
for the LORD hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be a sign
unto us.
SA1 14:11 And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of
the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come
forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
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