| 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: whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold
yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.
ISA 50:2 Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was
there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot
redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the
sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there
is no water, and dieth for thirst.
ISA 50:3 I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth
their covering.
ISA 50:4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I
should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he
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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: on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and
vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
ECC 2:12 And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly:
for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath
been already done.
ECC 2:13 Then I saw that wisdom excelleth folly, as far as light
excelleth darkness.
ECC 2:14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in
darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them
all.
ECC 2:15 Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it
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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: declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy
mouth?
PSA 50:17 Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind
thee.
PSA 50:18 When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and
hast been partaker with adulterers.
PSA 50:19 Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
PSA 50:20 Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou
slanderest thine own mother's son.
PSA 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will
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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 LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for
singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
KI1 10:13 And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire,
whatsoever she asked, beside that which Solomon gave her of his royal
bounty. So she turned and went to her own country, she and her servants.
KI1 10:14 Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was
six hundred threescore and six talents of gold,
KI1 10:15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of
the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the
governors of the country.
KI1 10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
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