| 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: KI1 10:15 Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of
the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the
governors of the country.
KI1 10:16 And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six
hundred shekels of gold went to one target.
KI1 10:17 And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound
of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the
forest of Lebanon.
KI1 10:18 Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid
it with the best gold.
KI1 10:19 The throne had six steps, and the top of the throne was round
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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: baskets ye took up?
MAT 16:11 How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to
you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the
Pharisees and of the Sadducees?
MAT 16:12 Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the
leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the
Sadducees.
MAT 16:13 When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he
asked his disciples, saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
MAT 16:14 And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some,
Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
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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: cubits long;
EZE 41:14 Also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the
separate place toward the east, an hundred cubits.
EZE 41:15 And he measured the length of the building over against the
separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one
side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple,
and the porches of the court;
EZE 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with
wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows
were covered;
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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: GEN 2:23 And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my
flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
GEN 2:24 Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and
shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.
GEN 2:25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not
ashamed.
GEN 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field
which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God
said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
GEN 3:2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of
the trees of the garden:
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