| 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: LUK 11:44 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are
as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not
aware of them.
LUK 11:45 Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master,
thus saying thou reproachest us also.
LUK 11:46 And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men
with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the
burdens with one of your fingers.
LUK 11:47 Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets,
and your fathers killed them.
LUK 11:48 Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your
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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: wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do
right?
GEN 18:26 And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within
the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.
GEN 18:27 And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon
me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes:
GEN 18:28 Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous:
wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find
there forty and five, I will not destroy it.
GEN 18:29 And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there
shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's
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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: thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and
collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside
the chains that were about their camels' necks.
JDG 8:27 And Gideon made an ephod thereof, and put it in his city, even
in Ophrah: and all Israel went thither a whoring after it: which thing
became a snare unto Gideon, and to his house.
JDG 8:28 Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that
they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness
forty years in the days of Gideon.
JDG 8:29 And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own
house.
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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: host, who mustered the people of the land; and threescore men of the
people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city.
JER 52:26 So Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard took them, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah.
JER 52:27 And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in
Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of
his own land.
JER 52:28 This is the people whom Nebuchadrezzar carried away captive:
in the seventh year three thousand Jews and three and twenty:
JER 52:29 In the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he carried away
captive from Jerusalem eight hundred thirty and two persons:
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