| 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: KI1 9:20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of
Israel,
KI1 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
KI1 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but
they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
KI1 9:23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that
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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: sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;
MAT 26:60 But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet
found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,
MAT 26:61 And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple
of God, and to build it in three days.
MAT 26:62 And the high priest arose, and said unto him, Answerest thou
nothing? what is it which these witness against thee?
MAT 26:63 But Jesus held his peace, And the high priest answered and
said unto him, I adjure thee by the living God, that thou tell us
whether thou be the Christ, the Son of God.
MAT 26:64 Jesus saith unto him, Thou hast said: nevertheless I say unto
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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: ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
ISA 25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
ISA 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
ISA 25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a
dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the
terrible ones shall be brought low.
ISA 25:6 And in this mountain shall the LORD of hosts make unto all
people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat
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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: MAR 12:10 And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the
builders rejected is become the head of the corner:
MAR 12:11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is marvellous in our eyes?
MAR 12:12 And they sought to lay hold on him, but feared the people:
for they knew that he had spoken the parable against them: and they left
him, and went their way.
MAR 12:13 And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the
Herodians, to catch him in his words.
MAR 12:14 And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know
that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the
person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to
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