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: in Naioth.
SA1 19:19 And it was told Saul, saying, Behold, David is at Naioth in
Ramah.
SA1 19:20 And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the
company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as appointed
over them, the Spirit of God was upon the messengers of Saul, and they
also prophesied.
SA1 19:21 And when it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they
prophesied likewise. And Saul sent messengers again the third time, and
they prophesied also.
SA1 19:22 Then went he also to Ramah, and came to a great well that is
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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: forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of
her plantation.
EZE 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might
bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a
goodly vine.
EZE 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he
not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it
wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without
great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.
EZE 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not
utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the
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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 thou saidst, I will not transgress; when upon every high hill and
under every green tree thou wanderest, playing the harlot.
JER 2:21 Yet I had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how
then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine unto
me?
JER 2:22 For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap,
yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord GOD.
JER 2:23 How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not gone after
Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: thou art a
swift dromedary traversing her ways;
JER 2:24 A wild ass used to the wilderness, that snuffeth up the wind
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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: as at other times.
JDG 20:31 And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and
were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people,
and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to
the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men
of Israel.
JDG 20:32 And the children of Benjamin said, They are smitten down
before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us
flee, and draw them from the city unto the highways.
JDG 20:33 And all the men of Israel rose up out of their place, and put
themselves in array at Baaltamar: and the liers in wait of Israel came
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