| 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: EST 9:23 And the Jews undertook to do as they had begun, and as
Mordecai had written unto them;
EST 9:24 Because Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of
all the Jews, had devised against the Jews to destroy them, and had cast
Pur, that is, the lot, to consume them, and to destroy them;
EST 9:25 But when Esther came before the king, he commanded by letters
that his wicked device, which he devised against the Jews, should return
upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the
gallows.
EST 9:26 Wherefore they called these days Purim after the name of Pur.
Therefore for all the words of this letter, and of that which they had
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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: EZE 14:6 Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord
GOD; Repent, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your
faces from all your abominations.
EZE 14:7 For every one of the house of Israel, or of the stranger that
sojourneth in Israel, which separateth himself from me, and setteth up
his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity
before his face, and cometh to a prophet to enquire of him concerning
me; I the LORD will answer him by myself:
EZE 14:8 And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a
sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people;
and ye shall know that I am the LORD.
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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: both for him that is born among the children of Israel, and for the
stranger that sojourneth among them.
NUM 15:30 But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be
born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the LORD; and that
soul shall be cut off from among his people.
NUM 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath
broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity
shall be upon him.
NUM 15:32 And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness, they
found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath day.
NUM 15:33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto
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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 living God.
ROM 9:27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the
children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
ROM 9:28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in
righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
ROM 9:29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left
us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
ROM 9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not
after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the
righteousness which is of faith.
ROM 9:31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness,
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