| 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: CH2 23:11 Then they brought out the king's son, and put upon him the
crown, and gave him the testimony, and made him king. And Jehoiada and
his sons anointed him, and said, God save the king.
CH2 23:12 Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and
praising the king, she came to the people into the house of the LORD:
CH2 23:13 And she looked, and, behold, the king stood at his pillar at
the entering in, and the princes and the trumpets by the king: and all
the people of the land rejoiced, and sounded with trumpets, also the
singers with instruments of musick, and such as taught to sing praise.
Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and said, Treason, Treason.
CH2 23:14 Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds
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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: wimples, and the crisping pins,
ISA 3:23 The glasses, and the fine linen, and the hoods, and the vails.
ISA 3:24 And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there
shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set
hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and
burning instead of beauty.
ISA 3:25 Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
ISA 3:26 And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she being desolate
shall sit upon the ground.
ISA 4:1 And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying,
We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be
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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: prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by
himself with a soldier that kept him.
ACT 28:17 And it came to pass, that after three days Paul called the
chief of the Jews together: and when they were come together, he said
unto them, Men and brethren, though I have committed nothing against the
people, or customs of our fathers, yet was I delivered prisoner from
Jerusalem into the hands of the Romans.
ACT 28:18 Who, when they had examined me, would have let me go, because
there was no cause of death in me.
ACT 28:19 But when the Jews spake against it, I was constrained to
appeal unto Caesar; not that I had ought to accuse my nation of.
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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: river's side, as the trees of lign aloes which the LORD hath planted,
and as cedar trees beside the waters.
NUM 24:7 He shall pour the water out of his buckets, and his seed shall
be in many waters, and his king shall be higher than Agag, and his
kingdom shall be exalted.
NUM 24:8 God brought him forth out of Egypt; he hath as it were the
strength of an unicorn: he shall eat up the nations his enemies, and
shall break their bones, and pierce them through with his arrows.
NUM 24:9 He couched, he lay down as a lion, and as a great lion: who
shall stir him up? Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he
that curseth thee.
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