| 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: him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest: for at
the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.
KI1 20:23 And the servants of the king of Syria said unto him, Their
gods are gods of the hills; therefore they were stronger than we; but
let us fight against them in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger
than they.
KI1 20:24 And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his
place, and put captains in their rooms:
KI1 20:25 And number thee an army, like the army that thou hast lost,
horse for horse, and chariot for chariot: and we will fight against them
in the plain, and surely we shall be stronger than they. And 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: returned for a trespass offering unto the LORD; for Ashdod one, for Gaza
one, for Askelon one, for Gath one, for Ekron one;
SA1 6:18 And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities
of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities,
and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they
set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
SA1 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
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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: it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
GEN 49:8 Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand
shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow
down before thee.
GEN 49:9 Judah is a lion's whelp: from the prey, my son, thou art gone
up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall
rouse him up?
GEN 49:10 The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of
the people be.
GEN 49:11 Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the
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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: commandments;
DEU 26:19 And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made,
in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy
people unto the LORD thy God, as he hath spoken.
DEU 27:1 And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people,
saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
DEU 27:2 And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over Jordan unto
the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up
great stones, and plaister them with plaister:
DEU 27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when
thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the
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