| 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: that I may answer this people?
KI1 12:7 And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant
unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and
speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.
KI1 12:8 But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had
given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him,
and which stood before him:
KI1 12:9 And he said unto them, What counsel give ye that we may answer
this people, who have spoken to me, saying, Make the yoke which thy
father did put upon us lighter?
KI1 12:10 And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him,
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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: by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor
beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink
water:
JON 3:8 But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry
mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and
from the violence that is in their hands.
JON 3:9 Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from
his fierce anger, that we perish not?
JON 3:10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way;
and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto
them; and he did it not.
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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: call upon the name of the LORD.
PSA 116:18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all
his people.
PSA 116:19 In the courts of the LORD's house, in the midst of thee, O
Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
PSA 117:1 O praise the LORD, all ye nations: praise him, all ye people.
PSA 117:2 For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth
of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
PSA 118:1 O give thanks unto the LORD; for he is good: because his
mercy endureth for ever.
PSA 118:2 Let Israel now say, that his mercy endureth for ever.
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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: priests, the keepers of the charge of the altar: these are the sons of
Zadok among the sons of Levi, which come near to the LORD to minister
unto him.
EZE 40:47 So he measured the court, an hundred cubits long, and an
hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar that was before the
house.
EZE 40:48 And he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured
each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on
that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side,
and three cubits on that side.
EZE 40:49 The length of the porch was twenty cubits, and the breadth
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