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: out of their hand.
LAM 5:9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the
sword of the wilderness.
LAM 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
famine.
LAM 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities
of Judah.
LAM 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were
not honoured.
LAM 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under
the wood.
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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: EZE 16:22 And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not
remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and
wast polluted in thy blood.
EZE 16:23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto
thee! saith the LORD GOD;)
EZE 16:24 That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and
hast made thee an high place in every street.
EZE 16:25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way, and
hast made thy beauty to be abhorred, and hast opened thy feet to every
one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms.
EZE 16:26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy
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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: of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory of
the LORD appeared.
NUM 16:43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the
congregation.
NUM 16:44 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 16:45 Get you up from among this congregation, that I may consume
them as in a moment. And they fell upon their faces.
NUM 16:46 And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a censer, and put fire
therein from off the altar, and put on incense, and go quickly unto the
congregation, and make an atonement for them: for there is wrath gone
out from the LORD; the plague is begun.
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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: solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened
bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
CH2 8:14 And he appointed, according to the order of David his father,
the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their
charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every
day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so
had David the man of God commanded.
CH2 8:15 And they departed not from the commandment of the king unto
the priests and Levites concerning any matter, or concerning the
treasures.
CH2 8:16 Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the
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