| 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: CH2 16:12 And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was
diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his
disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.
CH2 16:13 And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and
fortieth year of his reign.
CH2 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made
for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was
filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the
apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.
CH2 17:1 And Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead, and strengthened
himself against Israel.
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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: our reproach.
LAM 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
LAM 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
LAM 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
LAM 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
LAM 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians,
to be satisfied with bread.
LAM 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their
iniquities.
LAM 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us
out of their hand.
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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: GEN 44:13 Then they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass,
and returned to the city.
GEN 44:14 And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph's house; for he was
yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.
GEN 44:15 And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have
done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?
GEN 44:16 And Judah said, What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we
speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity
of thy servants: behold, we are my lord's servants, both we, and he also
with whom the cup is found.
GEN 44:17 And he said, God forbid that I should do so: but the man in
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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: Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
JER 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
JER 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the
LORD's house.
JER 51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
JER 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers
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