| 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: SA2 3:17 And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying,
Ye sought for David in times past to be king over you:
SA2 3:18 Now then do it: for the LORD hath spoken of David, saying, By
the hand of my servant David I will save my people Israel out of the
hand of the Philistines, and out of the hand of all their enemies.
SA2 3:19 And Abner also spake in the ears of Benjamin: and Abner went
also to speak in the ears of David in Hebron all that seemed good to
Israel, and that seemed good to the whole house of Benjamin.
SA2 3:20 So Abner came to David to Hebron, and twenty men with him. And
David made Abner and the men that were with him a feast.
SA2 3:21 And Abner said unto David, I will arise and go, and will
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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: the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were
Eliab the firstborn, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.
SA1 17:14 And David was the youngest: and the three eldest followed
Saul.
SA1 17:15 But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father's
sheep at Bethlehem.
SA1 17:16 And the Philistine drew near morning and evening, and
presented himself forty days.
SA1 17:17 And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren
an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp
of thy brethren;
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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: GEN 47:8 And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou?
GEN 47:9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my
pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days
of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
GEN 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
GEN 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them
a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land
of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
GEN 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all
his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
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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 him, and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.
Wherefore Saul said to David, Thou shalt this day be my son in law in
the one of the twain.
SA1 18:22 And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David
secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his
servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.
SA1 18:23 And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David.
And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in
law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?
SA1 18:24 And the servants of Saul told him, saying, On this manner
spake David.
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