| 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: sword, a sword is sharpened, and also furbished:
EZE 21:10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter; it is furbished
that it may glitter: should we then make mirth? it contemneth the rod of
my son, as every tree.
EZE 21:11 And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled:
this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand
of the slayer.
EZE 21:12 Cry and howl, son of man: for it shall be upon my people, it
shall be upon all the princes of Israel: terrors by reason of the sword
shall be upon my people: smite therefore upon thy thigh.
EZE 21:13 Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the
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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: lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy
messengers shall no more be heard.
NAH 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the
prey departeth not;
NAH 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the
wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
NAH 3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the
glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number
of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon
their corpses:
NAH 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured
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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: GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
GEN 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;
and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's
cattle.
GEN 30:41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did
conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the
gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
GEN 30:42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the
feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
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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: DEU 26:10 And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land,
which thou, O LORD, hast given me. And thou shalt set it before the LORD
thy God, and worship before the LORD thy God:
DEU 26:11 And thou shalt rejoice in every good thing which the LORD thy
God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite,
and the stranger that is among you.
DEU 26:12 When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithes of thine
increase the third year, which is the year of tithing, and hast given it
unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they
may eat within thy gates, and be filled;
DEU 26:13 Then thou shalt say before the LORD thy God, I have brought
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