| 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: sore travail.
ECC 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for
their labour.
ECC 4:10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to
him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him
up.
ECC 4:11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can
one be warm alone?
ECC 4:12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
threefold cord is not quickly broken.
ECC 4:13 Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish
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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: take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came
therefore, and took the body of Jesus.
JOH 19:39 And there came also Nicodemus, which at the first came to
Jesus by night, and brought a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about an
hundred pound weight.
JOH 19:40 Then took they the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen
clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury.
JOH 19:41 Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden;
and in the garden a new sepulchre, wherein was never man yet laid.
JOH 19:42 There laid they Jesus therefore because of the Jews'
preparation day; for the sepulchre was nigh at hand.
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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: drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he
drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
NUM 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
NUM 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he
separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the
locks of the hair of his head grow.
NUM 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
come at no dead body.
NUM 6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for 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: mount Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath.
JDG 3:4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they
would hearken unto the commandments of the LORD, which he commanded
their fathers by the hand of Moses.
JDG 3:5 And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites,
Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:
JDG 3:6 And they took their daughters to be their wives, and gave their
daughters to their sons, and served their gods.
JDG 3:7 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD,
and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
JDG 3:8 Therefore the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he
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