| 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: JOB 7:12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?
JOB 7:13 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my
complaints;
JOB 7:14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through
visions:
JOB 7:15 So that my soul chooseth strangling, and death rather than my
life.
JOB 7:16 I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days
are vanity.
JOB 7:17 What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou
shouldest set thine heart upon him?
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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: lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it
burneth as a flaming fire.
HOS 7:7 They are all hot as an oven, and have devoured their judges;
all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto
me.
HOS 7:8 Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a
cake not turned.
HOS 7:9 Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not:
yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
HOS 7:10 And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do
not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
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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: NUM 23:13 And Balak said unto him, Come, I pray thee, with me unto
another place, from whence thou mayest see them: thou shalt see but the
utmost part of them, and shalt not see them all: and curse me them from
thence.
NUM 23:14 And he brought him into the field of Zophim, to the top of
Pisgah, and built seven altars, and offered a bullock and a ram on every
altar.
NUM 23:15 And he said unto Balak, Stand here by thy burnt offering,
while I meet the LORD yonder.
NUM 23:16 And the LORD met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and
said, Go again unto Balak, and say thus.
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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: to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
JOS 9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
made a league with them, that they heard that they were their
neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.
JOS 9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their
cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah,
and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
JOS 9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes
of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And
all the congregation murmured against the princes.
JOS 9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have
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