| 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: sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
ECC 5:18 Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one
to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he
taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for
it is his portion.
ECC 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and
hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to
rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God.
ECC 5:20 For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because
God answereth him in the joy of his heart.
ECC 6:1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is
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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: Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
GEN 22:2 And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou
lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a
burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
GEN 22:3 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and saddled his ass,
and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son, and clave the
wood for the burnt offering, and rose up, and went unto the place of
which God had told him.
GEN 22:4 Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the
place afar off.
GEN 22:5 And Abraham said unto his young men, Abide ye here with the
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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: DEU 1:18 And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye
should do.
DEU 1:19 And when we departed from Horeb, we went through all that
great and terrible wilderness, which ye saw by the way of the mountain
of the Amorites, as the LORD our God commanded us; and we came to
Kadeshbarnea.
DEU 1:20 And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the
Amorites, which the LORD our God doth give unto us.
DEU 1:21 Behold, the LORD thy God hath set the land before thee: go up
and possess it, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath said unto thee; fear
not, neither be discouraged.
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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: EXO 30:23 Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five
hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred
and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels,
EXO 30:24 And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the
sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:
EXO 30:25 And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment
compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing
oil.
EXO 30:26 And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation
therewith, and the ark of the testimony,
EXO 30:27 And the table and all his vessels, and the candlestick and
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