| 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: this house:
KI1 8:32 Then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants,
condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his head; and justifying
the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.
KI1 8:33 When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy,
because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and
confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this
house:
KI1 8:34 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy people
Israel, and bring them again unto the land which thou gavest unto their
fathers.
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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: their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great
spoil divided; the lame take the prey.
ISA 33:24 And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that
dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity.
ISA 34:1 Come near, ye nations, to hear; and hearken, ye people: let
the earth hear, and all that is therein; the world, and all things that
come forth of it.
ISA 34:2 For the indignation of the LORD is upon all nations, and his
fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath
delivered them to the slaughter.
ISA 34:3 Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come
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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: saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this
wherein thou trustest?
ISA 36:5 I say, sayest thou, (but they are but vain words) I have
counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou
rebellest against me?
ISA 36:6 Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken reed, on Egypt;
whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is
Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
ISA 36:7 But if thou say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is it not
he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and
said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
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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: HAG 1:7 Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Consider your ways.
HAG 1:8 Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and
I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the LORD.
HAG 1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye
brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts.
Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own
house.
HAG 1:10 Therefore the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the
earth is stayed from her fruit.
HAG 1:11 And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the
mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil,
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