| 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: NUM 31:29 Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest,
for an heave offering of the LORD.
NUM 31:30 And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one
portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of
the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites,
which keep the charge of the tabernacle of the LORD.
NUM 31:31 And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the LORD commanded
Moses.
NUM 31:32 And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of
war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five
thousand sheep,
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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: they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made
blind.
JOH 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these
words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
JOH 9:41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin:
but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
JOH 10:1 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the
door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a
thief and a robber.
JOH 10:2 But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the
sheep.
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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: and the prudent, and the ancient,
ISA 3:3 The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the
counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.
ISA 3:4 And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall
rule over them.
ISA 3:5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and
every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly
against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
ISA 3:6 When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his
father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin
be under thy hand:
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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: the ground withal; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall
be fat and plenteous: in that day shall thy cattle feed in large
pastures.
ISA 30:24 The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground
shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and
with the fan.
ISA 30:25 And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every
high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great
slaughter, when the towers fall.
ISA 30:26 Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the
sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven
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