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: saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?
CH2 32:5 Also he strengthened himself, and built up all the wall that
was broken, and raised it up to the towers, and another wall without,
and repaired Millo in the city of David, and made darts and shields in
abundance.
CH2 32:6 And he set captains of war over the people, and gathered them
together to him in the street of the gate of the city, and spake
comfortably to them, saying,
CH2 32:7 Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the
king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there
be more with us than with him:
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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: altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a
sin offering.
LEV 5:13 And the priest shall make an atonement for him as touching his
sin that he hath sinned in one of these, and it shall be forgiven him:
and the remnant shall be the priest's, as a meat offering.
LEV 5:14 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
LEV 5:15 If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the
holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the
LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by
shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass
offering.
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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: damsel to wife.
GEN 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace
until they were come.
GEN 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
GEN 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had
wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob's daughter: which thing
ought not to be done.
GEN 34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son
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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: colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance
and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.
EZE 1:17 When they went, they went upon their four sides: and they
turned not when they went.
EZE 1:18 As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful;
and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.
EZE 1:19 And when the living creatures went, the wheels went by them:
and when the living creatures were lifted up from the earth, the wheels
were lifted up.
EZE 1:20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went, thither was
their spirit to go; and the wheels were lifted up over against them: for
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