| 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: were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side:
and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
JOS 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
JOS 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword,
until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and
smote it with the edge of the sword.
JOS 8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and
women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
JOS 8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out
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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: Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day
wherein they sold victuals.
NEH 13:16 There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and
all manner of ware, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah,
and in Jerusalem.
NEH 13:17 Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto
them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
NEH 13:18 Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this
evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by
profaning the sabbath.
NEH 13:19 And it came to pass, that when the gates of Jerusalem began
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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: the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith
the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
EZE 27:4 Thy borders are in the midst of the seas, thy builders have
perfected thy beauty.
EZE 27:5 They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir: they
have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
EZE 27:6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; the company
of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory, brought out of the
isles of Chittim.
EZE 27:7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou
spreadest forth to be thy sail; blue and purple from the isles of
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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: they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
KI1 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the
city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.
KI1 15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned
Asa over Judah.
KI1 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his
mother's name was Maachah, the daughter of Abishalom.
KI1 15:11 And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the LORD, as
did David his father.
KI1 15:12 And he took away the sodomites out of the land, and removed
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