| 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: should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?
SA2 19:36 Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king:
and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?
SA2 19:37 Let thy servant, I pray thee, turn back again, that I may die
in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and of my
mother. But behold thy servant Chimham; let him go over with my lord the
king; and do to him what shall seem good unto thee.
SA2 19:38 And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I
will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou
shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.
SA2 19:39 And all the people went over Jordan. And when the king was
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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: of Judah, which they have done against themselves to provoke me to anger
in offering incense unto Baal.
JER 11:18 And the LORD hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it:
then thou shewedst me their doings.
JER 11:19 But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the
slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me,
saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut
him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more
remembered.
JER 11:20 But, O LORD of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest
the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee
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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: that helpeth shall fall, and he that is holpen shall fall down, and they
all shall fail together.
ISA 31:4 For thus hath the LORD spoken unto me, Like as the lion and
the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor
abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the LORD of hosts come
down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
ISA 31:5 As birds flying, so will the LORD of hosts defend Jerusalem;
defending also he will deliver it; and passing over he will preserve it.
ISA 31:6 Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply
revolted.
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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: of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without
blemish.
LEV 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before
the LORD: and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall sprinkle his blood round
about upon the altar.
LEV 1:12 And he shall cut it into his pieces, with his head and his
fat: and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the
fire which is upon the altar:
LEV 1:13 But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the
priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt
sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
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