| 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: giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is
vanity, and it is an evil disease.
ECC 6:3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so
that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with
good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is
better than he.
ECC 6:4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and
his name shall be covered with darkness.
ECC 6:5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this
hath more rest than the other.
ECC 6:6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he
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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: shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in
pieces before the LORD in Gilgal.
SA1 15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
SA1 15:35 And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his
death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the LORD repented that
he had made Saul king over Israel.
SA1 16:1 And the LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for
Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine
horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I
have provided me a king among his sons.
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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: burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and
given it for a present unto his daughter, Solomon's wife.
KI1 9:17 And Solomon built Gezer, and Bethhoron the nether,
KI1 9:18 And Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land,
KI1 9:19 And all the cities of store that Solomon had, and cities for
his chariots, and cities for his horsemen, and that which Solomon
desired to build in Jerusalem, and in Lebanon, and in all the land of
his dominion.
KI1 9:20 And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites,
Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of
Israel,
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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: according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out
before the children of Israel.
KI1 14:25 And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that
Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem:
KI1 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and
the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took
away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
KI1 14:27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and
committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the
door of the king's house.
KI1 14:28 And it was so, when the king went into the house of the LORD,
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