| 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: commanded you to build this house, and to make up these walls?
EZR 5:10 We asked their names also, to certify thee, that we might
write the names of the men that were the chief of them.
EZR 5:11 And thus they returned us answer, saying, We are the servants
of the God of heaven and earth, and build the house that was builded
these many years ago, which a great king of Israel builded and set up.
EZR 5:12 But after that our fathers had provoked the God of heaven unto
wrath, he gave them into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon,
the Chaldean, who destroyed this house, and carried the people away into
Babylon.
EZR 5:13 But in the first year of Cyrus the king of Babylon the same
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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: mourning.
LAM 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have
sinned!
LAM 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are
dim.
LAM 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes
walk upon it.
LAM 5:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation
to generation.
LAM 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long
time?
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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 16:8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the
LORD, and the other lot for the scapegoat.
LEV 16:9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell,
and offer him for a sin offering.
LEV 16:10 But the goat, on which the lot fell to be the scapegoat,
shall be presented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him,
and to let him go for a scapegoat into the wilderness.
LEV 16:11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering, which
is for himself, and shall make an atonement for himself, and for his
house, and shall kill the bullock of the sin offering which is for
himself:
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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: CH2 8:13 Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the
commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the
solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
CH2 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their
charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every
day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so
had David the man of God commanded.
CH2 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
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