| 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: us go and do sacrifice to the LORD.
EXO 5:18 Go therefore now, and work; for there shall no straw be given
you, yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks.
EXO 5:19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they
were in evil case, after it was said, Ye shall not minish ought from
your bricks of your daily task.
EXO 5:20 And they met Moses and Aaron, who stood in the way, as they
came forth from Pharaoh:
EXO 5:21 And they said unto them, The LORD look upon you, and judge;
because ye have made our savour to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh,
and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay
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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: the earth after the flood.
GEN 11:1 And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
GEN 11:2 And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that
they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
GEN 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for morter.
GEN 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GEN 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
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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: into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
ACT 16:24 Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the
inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.
ACT 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto
God: and the prisoners heard them.
ACT 16:26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the
foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors
were opened, and every one's bands were loosed.
ACT 16:27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and
seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have
killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.
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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: sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against
the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
EXO 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious
girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from
the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
EXO 39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
EXO 39:23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole
of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not
rend.
EXO 39:24 And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue,
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