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: barren among them.
SON 4:3 Thy lips are like a thread of scarlet, and thy speech is
comely: thy temples are like a piece of a pomegranate within thy locks.
SON 4:4 Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury,
whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.
SON 4:5 Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which
feed among the lilies.
SON 4:6 Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, I will get me
to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
SON 4:7 Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.
SON 4:8 Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon:
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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: hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
HAG 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
HAG 2:16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty
measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw
out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
HAG 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all
the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
HAG 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation
of the LORD's temple was laid, consider it.
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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: fool's back.
PRO 26:4 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be
like unto him.
PRO 26:5 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his
own conceit.
PRO 26:6 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool cutteth off
the feet, and drinketh damage.
PRO 26:7 The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the
mouth of fools.
PRO 26:8 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth
honour to a fool.
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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: JDG 18:20 And the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and
the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.
JDG 18:21 So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the
cattle and the carriage before them.
JDG 18:22 And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the
men that were in the houses near to Micah's house were gathered
together, and overtook the children of Dan.
JDG 18:23 And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned
their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest
with such a company?
JDG 18:24 And he said, Ye have taken away my gods which I made, and the
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