| 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: cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a
bar:
NUM 4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread
a purple cloth thereon:
NUM 4:14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith
they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the
shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of
it.
NUM 4:15 And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the
sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set
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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: JER 2:12 Be astonished, O ye heavens, at this, and be horribly afraid,
be ye very desolate, saith the LORD.
JER 2:13 For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me
the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken
cisterns, that can hold no water.
JER 2:14 Is Israel a servant? is he a homeborn slave? why is he
spoiled?
JER 2:15 The young lions roared upon him, and yelled, and they made his
land waste: his cities are burned without inhabitant.
JER 2:16 Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown
of thy head.
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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: EXO 18:1 When Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses' father in law, heard
of all that God had done for Moses, and for Israel his people, and that
the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt;
EXO 18:2 Then Jethro, Moses' father in law, took Zipporah, Moses' wife,
after he had sent her back,
EXO 18:3 And her two sons; of which the name of the one was Gershom;
for he said, I have been an alien in a strange land:
EXO 18:4 And the name of the other was Eliezer; for the God of my
father, said he, was mine help, and delivered me from the sword of
Pharaoh:
EXO 18:5 And Jethro, Moses' father in law, came with his sons and his
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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: known what is piped or harped?
CO1 14:8 For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare
himself to the battle?
CO1 14:9 So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be
understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak
into the air.
CO1 14:10 There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world,
and none of them is without signification.
CO1 14:11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be
unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a
barbarian unto me.
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