| 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: CH2 33:18 Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his
God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the
LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of
Israel.
CH2 33:19 His prayer also, and how God was intreated of him, and all
his sins, and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places,
and set up groves and graven images, before he was humbled: behold, they
are written among the sayings of the seers.
CH2 33:20 So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in
his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.
CH2 33:21 Amon was two and twenty years old when he began to reign, and
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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: calling one to another, and saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have
not danced; we have mourned to you, and ye have not wept.
LUK 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking
wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
LUK 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold
a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
LUK 7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
LUK 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with
him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
LUK 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an
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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: us declare in Zion the work of the LORD our God.
JER 51:11 Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath
raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is
against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance of the LORD,
the vengeance of his temple.
JER 51:12 Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch
strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the LORD hath
both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of
Babylon.
JER 51:13 O thou that dwellest upon many waters, abundant in treasures,
thine end is come, and the measure of thy covetousness.
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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: heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that
walk in pride he is able to abase.
DAN 5:1 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his
lords, and drank wine before the thousand.
DAN 5:2 Belshazzar, whiles he tasted the wine, commanded to bring the
golden and silver vessels which his father Nebuchadnezzar had taken out
of the temple which was in Jerusalem; that the king, and his princes,
his wives, and his concubines, might drink therein.
DAN 5:3 Then they brought the golden vessels that were taken out of the
temple of the house of God which was at Jerusalem; and the king, and his
princes, his wives, and his concubines, drank in them.
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