| 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: the land, and from the strange wives.
EZR 10:12 Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud
voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.
EZR 10:13 But the people are many, and it is a time of much rain, and
we are not able to stand without, neither is this a work of one day or
two: for we are many that have transgressed in this thing.
EZR 10:14 Let now our rulers of all the congregation stand, and let all
them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed
times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
EZR 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
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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: PSA 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that
forsake thy law.
PSA 119:54 Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my
pilgrimage.
PSA 119:55 I have remembered thy name, O LORD, in the night, and have
kept thy law.
PSA 119:56 This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
PSA 119:57 Thou art my portion, O LORD: I have said that I would keep
thy words.
PSA 119:58 I intreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto
me according to thy word.
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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: DEU 28:52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high
and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy
land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy
land, which the LORD thy God hath given thee.
DEU 28:53 And thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own body, the flesh of
thy sons and of thy daughters, which the LORD thy God hath given thee,
in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall
distress thee:
DEU 28:54 So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate,
his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his
bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
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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: Laban my brother to Haran;
GEN 27:44 And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother's fury turn
away;
GEN 27:45 Until thy brother's anger turn away from thee, and he forget
that which thou hast done to him: then I will send, and fetch thee from
thence: why should I be deprived also of you both in one day?
GEN 27:46 And Rebekah said to Isaac, I am weary of my life because of
the daughters of Heth: if Jacob take a wife of the daughters of Heth,
such as these which are of the daughters of the land, what good shall my
life do me?
GEN 28:1 And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and
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