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: Lift not up the horn:
PSA 75:5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
PSA 75:6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west,
nor from the south.
PSA 75:7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up
another.
PSA 75:8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is
red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the
dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and
drink them.
PSA 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of
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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: JOH 10:26 But ye believe not, because ye are not of my sheep, as I said
unto you.
JOH 10:27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:
JOH 10:28 And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never
perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
JOH 10:29 My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no
man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.
JOH 10:30 I and my Father are one.
JOH 10:31 Then the Jews took up stones again to stone him.
JOH 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from
my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
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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: and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the
LORD, therefore the LORD will not be with you.
NUM 14:44 But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless
the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the
camp.
NUM 14:45 Then the Amalekites came down, and the Canaanites which dwelt
in that hill, and smote them, and discomfited them, even unto Hormah.
NUM 15:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 15:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye
be come into the land of your habitations, which I give unto you,
NUM 15:3 And will make an offering by fire unto the LORD, a burnt
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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: and for strength to them that turn the battle to the gate.
ISA 28:7 But they also have erred through wine, and through strong
drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through
strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way
through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
ISA 28:8 For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there
is no place clean.
ISA 28:9 Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to
understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from
the breasts.
ISA 28:10 For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line
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