| 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: JER 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
every one her neighbour lamentation.
JER 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from
the streets.
JER 9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the
harvestman, and none shall gather them.
JER 9:23 Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom,
neither let the mighty man glory in his might, let not the rich man
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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: JDG 20:29 And Israel set liers in wait round about Gibeah.
JDG 20:30 And the children of Israel went up against the children of
Benjamin on the third day, and put themselves in array against Gibeah,
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
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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: NUM 10:11 And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month,
in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle
of the testimony.
NUM 10:12 And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the
wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
NUM 10:13 And they first took their journey according to the
commandment of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
NUM 10:14 In the first place went the standard of the camp of the
children of Judah according to their armies: and over his host was
Nahshon the son of Amminadab.
NUM 10:15 And over the host of the tribe of the children of Issachar
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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: families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls.
NUM 1:19 As the LORD commanded Moses, so he numbered them in the
wilderness of Sinai.
NUM 1:20 And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their
generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers,
according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from
twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
NUM 1:21 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Reuben,
were forty and six thousand and five hundred.
NUM 1:22 Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their
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