| 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: are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.
PSA 36:7 How excellent is thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the
children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
PSA 36:8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy
house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.
PSA 36:9 For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we
see light.
PSA 36:10 O continue thy lovingkindness unto them that know thee; and
thy righteousness to the upright in heart.
PSA 36:11 Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the
hand of the wicked remove me.
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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: KI1 5:15 And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens,
and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;
KI1 5:16 Beside the chief of Solomon's officers which were over the
work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the people that
wrought in the work.
KI1 5:17 And the king commanded, and they brought great stones, costly
stones, and hewed stones, to lay the foundation of the house.
KI1 5:18 And Solomon's builders and Hiram's builders did hew them, and
the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the
house.
KI1 6:1 And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year
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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: such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of
the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards,
and eat the fruit thereof.
ISA 37:31 And the remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah shall
again take root downward, and bear fruit upward:
ISA 37:32 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that
escape out of mount Zion: the zeal of the LORD of hosts shall do this.
ISA 37:33 Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the king of Assyria,
He shall not come into this city, nor shoot an arrow there, nor come
before it with shields, nor cast a bank against it.
ISA 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, 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: of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
KI1 4:31 For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and
Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in
all nations round about.
KI1 4:32 And he spake three thousand proverbs: and his songs were a
thousand and five.
KI1 4:33 And he spake of trees, from the cedar tree that is in Lebanon
even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall: he spake also of
beasts, and of fowl, and of creeping things, and of fishes.
KI1 4:34 And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon,
from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.
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