| 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: behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
ECC 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which
is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECC 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great
estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before
me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and
knowledge.
ECC 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and
folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
ECC 1:18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow.
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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: JOS 2:11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you:
for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
JOS 2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I
have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my
father's house, and give me a true token:
JOS 2:13 And that ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my
brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives
from death.
JOS 2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not
this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the
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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: all the ground let there be dew.
JDG 6:40 And God did so that night: for it was dry upon the fleece
only, and there was dew on all the ground.
JDG 7:1 Then Jerubbaal, who is Gideon, and all the people that were
with him, rose up early, and pitched beside the well of Harod: so that
the host of the Midianites were on the north side of them, by the hill
of Moreh, in the valley.
JDG 7:2 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee
are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel
vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.
JDG 7:3 Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people,
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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: from Gath.
KI1 2:41 And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to
Gath, and was come again.
KI1 2:42 And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him,
Did I not make thee to swear by the LORD, and protested unto thee,
saying, Know for a certain, on the day thou goest out, and walkest
abroad any whither, that thou shalt surely die? and thou saidst unto me,
The word that I have heard is good.
KI1 2:43 Why then hast thou not kept the oath of the LORD, and the
commandment that I have charged thee with?
KI1 2:44 The king said moreover to Shimei, Thou knowest all the
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