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: they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
GEN 11:3 And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and
burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they
for morter.
GEN 11:4 And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower,
whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be
scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
GEN 11:5 And the LORD came down to see the city and the tower, which
the children of men builded.
GEN 11:6 And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have
all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be
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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: JER 28:17 So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh
month.
JER 29:1 Now these are the words of the letter that Jeremiah the
prophet sent from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were
carried away captives, and to the priests, and to the prophets, and to
all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar had carried away captive from
Jerusalem to Babylon;
JER 29:2 (After that Jeconiah the king, and the queen, and the eunuchs,
the princes of Judah and Jerusalem, and the carpenters, and the smiths,
were departed from Jerusalem;)
JER 29:3 By the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son
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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: one the waters of his own cistern;
ISA 36:17 Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land,
a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
ISA 36:18 Beware lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, the LORD will
deliver us. Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out
of the hand of the king of Assyria?
ISA 36:19 Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad? where are the gods
of Sepharvaim? and have they delivered Samaria out of my hand?
ISA 36:20 Who are they among all the gods of these lands, that have
delivered their land out of my hand, that the LORD should deliver
Jerusalem out of my hand?
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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: and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers,
CH2 33:13 And prayed unto him: and he was intreated of him, and heard
his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom.
Then Manasseh knew that the LORD he was God.
CH2 33:14 Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on
the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the
fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great
height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
CH2 33:15 And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the
house of the LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of
the house of the LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
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