| 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: even under the wings of the cherubims.
KI1 8:7 For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place
of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof
above.
KI1 8:8 And they drew out the staves, that the ends of the staves were
seen out in the holy place before the oracle, and they were not seen
without: and there they are unto this day.
KI1 8:9 There was nothing in the ark save the two tables of stone,
which Moses put there at Horeb, when the LORD made a covenant with the
children of Israel, when they came out of the land of Egypt.
KI1 8:10 And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the
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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: up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick
boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
EZE 31:11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty
one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out
for his wickedness.
EZE 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off,
and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his
branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the
land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and
have left him.
EZE 31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and
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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: LEV 21:17 Speak unto Aaron, saying, Whosoever he be of thy seed in
their generations that hath any blemish, let him not approach to offer
the bread of his God.
LEV 21:18 For whatsoever man he be that hath a blemish, he shall not
approach: a blind man, or a lame, or he that hath a flat nose, or any
thing superfluous,
LEV 21:19 Or a man that is brokenfooted, or brokenhanded,
LEV 21:20 Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye,
or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
LEV 21:21 No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest
shall come nigh to offer the offerings of the LORD made by fire: he hath
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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 lay the wood in order upon the fire:
LEV 1:8 And the priests, Aaron's sons, shall lay the parts, the head,
and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon
the altar:
LEV 1:9 But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the
priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering
made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
LEV 1:10 And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or
of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without
blemish.
LEV 1:11 And he shall kill it on the side of the altar northward before
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