| 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: swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor
yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but
time and chance happeneth to them all.
ECC 9:12 For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are
taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so
are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly
upon them.
ECC 9:13 This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed
great unto me:
ECC 9:14 There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came
a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks
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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: at her hand.
SA2 13:7 Then David sent home to Tamar, saying, Go now to thy brother
Amnon's house, and dress him meat.
SA2 13:8 So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was laid
down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight,
and did bake the cakes.
SA2 13:9 And she took a pan, and poured them out before him; but he
refused to eat. And Amnon said, Have out all men from me. And they went
out every man from him.
SA2 13:10 And Amnon said unto Tamar, Bring the meat into the chamber,
that I may eat of thine hand. And Tamar took the cakes which she had
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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: the kings of Israel?
KI1 16:28 So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria:
and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.
KI1 16:29 And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began
Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri
reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
KI1 16:30 And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight of the LORD
above all that were before him.
KI1 16:31 And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him
to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife
Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and
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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: JER 36:9 And it came to pass in the fifth year of Jehoiakim the son of
Josiah king of Judah, in the ninth month, that they proclaimed a fast
before the LORD to all the people in Jerusalem, and to all the people
that came from the cities of Judah unto Jerusalem.
JER 36:10 Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the
house of the LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the
scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate of the LORD's
house, in the ears of all the people.
JER 36:11 When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had
heard out of the book all the words of the LORD,
JER 36:12 Then he went down into the king's house, into the scribe's
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