| 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: Nahor, Abraham's brother.
GEN 22:24 And his concubine, whose name was Reumah, she bare also
Tebah, and Gaham, and Thahash, and Maachah.
GEN 23:1 And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these
were the years of the life of Sarah.
GEN 23:2 And Sarah died in Kirjatharba; the same is Hebron in the land
of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
GEN 23:3 And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the
sons of Heth, saying,
GEN 23:4 I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession
of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
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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: burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the
voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are
fled; they are gone.
JER 9:11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons; and I
will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
JER 9:12 Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he
to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for
what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none
passeth through?
JER 9:13 And the LORD saith, Because they have forsaken my law which I
set before them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither walked therein;
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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: not my countenance be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers'
sepulchres, lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?
NEH 2:4 Then the king said unto me, For what dost thou make request? So
I prayed to the God of heaven.
NEH 2:5 And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy
servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto
Judah, unto the city of my fathers' sepulchres, that I may build it.
NEH 2:6 And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For
how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased
the king to send me; and I set him a time.
NEH 2:7 Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let
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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: tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.
MAR 7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more
he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;
MAR 7:37 And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all
things well: he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
MAR 8:1 In those days the multitude being very great, and having
nothing to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto
them,
MAR 8:2 I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been
with me three days, and have nothing to eat:
MAR 8:3 And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will
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