| 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: law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
LAM 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and
keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
LAM 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver
is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my
people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of
the city.
LAM 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was
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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: better than wine.
SON 1:3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as
ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.
SON 1:4 Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into
his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy
love more than wine: the upright love thee.
SON 1:5 I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the
tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
SON 1:6 Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath
looked upon me: my mother's children were angry with me; they made me
the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
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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: JDG 20:16 Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men
lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not
miss.
JDG 20:17 And the men of Israel, beside Benjamin, were numbered four
hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.
JDG 20:18 And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of
God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first
to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah
shall go up first.
JDG 20:19 And the children of Israel rose up in the morning, and
encamped against Gibeah.
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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: GEN 41:7 And the seven thin ears devoured the seven rank and full ears.
And Pharaoh awoke, and, behold, it was a dream.
GEN 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was
troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all
the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was
none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
GEN 41:9 Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do
remember my faults this day:
GEN 41:10 Pharaoh was wroth with his servants, and put me in ward in
the captain of the guard's house, both me and the chief baker:
GEN 41:11 And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed
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