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: HOS 6:5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets; I have slain them
by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments are as the light that goeth
forth.
HOS 6:6 For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of
God more than burnt offerings.
HOS 6:7 But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have
they dealt treacherously against me.
HOS 6:8 Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted
with blood.
HOS 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of
priests murder in the way by consent: for they commit lewdness.
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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: GAL 4:20 I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice;
for I stand in doubt of you.
GAL 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear
the law?
GAL 4:22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a
bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
GAL 4:23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but
he of the freewoman was by promise.
GAL 4:24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
GAL 4:25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to
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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: art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee
a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.
JER 22:7 And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his
weapons: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into
the fire.
JER 22:8 And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say
every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this
great city?
JER 22:9 Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the
covenant of the LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served
them.
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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: weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
NUM 25:7 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the
priest, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a
javelin in his hand;
NUM 25:8 And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust
both of them through, the man of Israel, and the woman through her
belly. So the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.
NUM 25:9 And those that died in the plague were twenty and four
thousand.
NUM 25:10 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 25:11 Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,
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