| 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: mandrakes.
GEN 30:16 And Jacob came out of the field in the evening, and Leah went
out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for surely I have
hired thee with my son's mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.
GEN 30:17 And God hearkened unto Leah, and she conceived, and bare
Jacob the fifth son.
GEN 30:18 And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have
given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.
GEN 30:19 And Leah conceived again, and bare Jacob the sixth son.
GEN 30:20 And Leah said, God hath endued me with a good dowry; now will
my husband dwell with me, because I have born him six sons: and she
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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: seeth the tumult, and them that wept and wailed greatly.
MAR 5:39 And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this
ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.
MAR 5:40 And they laughed him to scorn. But when he had put them all
out, he taketh the father and the mother of the damsel, and them that
were with him, and entereth in where the damsel was lying.
MAR 5:41 And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha
cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.
MAR 5:42 And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of
the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great
astonishment.
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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: clouds that they rain no rain upon it.
ISA 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel,
and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but
behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
ISA 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to
field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the
midst of the earth!
ISA 5:9 In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses
shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.
ISA 5:10 Yea, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed
of an homer shall yield an ephah.
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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: hath stretched the line upon it?
JOB 38:6 Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid
the corner stone thereof;
JOB 38:7 When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
JOB 38:8 Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if
it had issued out of the womb?
JOB 38:9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof, and thick darkness
a swaddlingband for it,
JOB 38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
JOB 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here
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