| 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: daughter of Babylon is like a threshingfloor, it is time to thresh her:
yet a little while, and the time of her harvest shall come.
JER 51:34 Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath
crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up
like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cast
me out.
JER 51:35 The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,
shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of
Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
JER 51:36 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will plead thy
cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make
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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: LAM 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown
as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
LAM 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of
sapphire:
LAM 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
become like a stick.
LAM 4:9 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be
slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of 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: city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.
EZR 4:13 Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded,
and the walls set up again, then will they not pay toll, tribute, and
custom, and so thou shalt endamage the revenue of the kings.
EZR 4:14 Now because we have maintenance from the king's palace, and it
was not meet for us to see the king's dishonour, therefore have we sent
and certified the king;
EZR 4:15 That search may be made in the book of the records of thy
fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that
this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces,
and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which
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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: the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to
year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of
tabernacles.
ZEC 14:17 And it shall be, that whoso will not come up of all the
families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of
hosts, even upon them shall be no rain.
ZEC 14:18 And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, that have
no rain; there shall be the plague, wherewith the LORD will smite the
heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
ZEC 14:19 This shall be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of
all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.
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