| 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: our fathers: our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is none
abiding.
CH1 29:16 O LORD our God, all this store that we have prepared to build
thee an house for thine holy name cometh of thine hand, and is all thine
own.
CH1 29:17 I know also, my God, that thou triest the heart, and hast
pleasure in uprightness. As for me, in the uprightness of mine heart I
have willingly offered all these things: and now have I seen with joy
thy people, which are present here, to offer willingly unto thee.
CH1 29:18 O LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers,
keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart 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: unto them.
LAM 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they
that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
LAM 4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown
as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.
LAM 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of
sapphire:
LAM 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the
streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is
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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: GEN 27:20 And Isaac said unto his son, How is it that thou hast found
it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the LORD thy God brought it
to me.
GEN 27:21 And Isaac said unto Jacob, Come near, I pray thee, that I may
feel thee, my son, whether thou be my very son Esau or not.
GEN 27:22 And Jacob went near unto Isaac his father; and he felt him,
and said, The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of
Esau.
GEN 27:23 And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as
his brother Esau's hands: so he blessed him.
GEN 27:24 And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.
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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: thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.
LAM 5:1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold
our reproach.
LAM 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
LAM 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
LAM 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
LAM 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
LAM 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
to be satisfied with bread.
LAM 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
iniquities.
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