| 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: NEH 9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven,
and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised
to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
NEH 9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the
land, that they might do with them as they would.
NEH 9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and
fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became
fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
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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: NUM 2:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,
NUM 2:2 Every man of the children of Israel shall pitch by his own
standard, with the ensign of their father's house: far off about the
tabernacle of the congregation shall they pitch.
NUM 2:3 And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of
the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and
Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.
NUM 2:4 And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were
threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.
NUM 2:5 And those that do pitch next unto him shall be the tribe of
Issachar: and Nethaneel the son of Zuar shall be captain of the children
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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: came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there
is not one of them left.
SA2 13:31 Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the
earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.
SA2 13:32 And Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David's brother, answered and
said, Let not my lord suppose that they have slain all the young men the
king's sons; for Amnon only is dead: for by the appointment of Absalom
this hath been determined from the day that he forced his sister Tamar.
SA2 13:33 Now therefore let not my lord the king take the thing to his
heart, to think that all the king's sons are dead: for Amnon only is
dead.
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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: thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and
white wool.
EZE 27:19 Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs:
bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.
EZE 27:20 Dedan was thy merchant in precious clothes for chariots.
EZE 27:21 Arabia, and all the princes of Kedar, they occupied with thee
in lambs, and rams, and goats: in these were they thy merchants.
EZE 27:22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah, they were thy merchants:
they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices, and with all
precious stones, and gold.
EZE 27:23 Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur,
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