| 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: flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud
forth: there will I give thee my loves.
SON 7:13 The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of
pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my
beloved.
SON 8:1 O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my
mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I
should not be despised.
SON 8:2 I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother's house, who
would instruct me: I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the
juice of my pomegranate.
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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: provocations.
NEH 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they
cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the
hand of their enemies.
NEH 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
therefore leftest thou them in the land of their enemies, so that they
had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee,
thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them
according to thy mercies;
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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: sore famine in Samaria.
KI1 18:3 And Ahab called Obadiah, which was the governor of his house.
(Now Obadiah feared the LORD greatly:
KI1 18:4 For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD,
that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave,
and fed them with bread and water.)
KI1 18:5 And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all
fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass
to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.
KI1 18:6 So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it:
Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.
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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: knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in
ye hindered.
LUK 11:53 And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the
Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of
many things:
LUK 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of
his mouth, that they might accuse him.
LUK 12:1 In the mean time, when there were gathered together an
innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon
another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of
the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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