| 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: JDG 6:27 Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the LORD
had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father's
household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that
he did it by night.
JDG 6:28 And when the men of the city arose early in the morning,
behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that
was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was
built.
JDG 6:29 And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And
when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath
done this thing.
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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 LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by
him on his right hand and on his left.
KI1 22:20 And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up
and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said
on that manner.
KI1 22:21 And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and
said, I will persuade him.
KI1 22:22 And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go
forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets.
And he said, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do
so.
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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: GEN 42:4 But Benjamin, Joseph's brother, Jacob sent not with his
brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.
GEN 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
GEN 42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and
bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
GEN 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy
food.
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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: who brought forth their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have taken
hold upon other gods, and have worshipped them, and served them:
therefore hath the LORD brought upon them all this evil.
KI1 9:10 And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon
had built the two houses, the house of the LORD, and the king's house,
KI1 9:11 (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar
trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that
then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.
KI1 9:12 And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon
had given him; and they pleased him not.
KI1 9:13 And he said, What cities are these which thou hast given me,
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