| 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: against them, and I after them, and the half of the people upon the
wall, from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall;
NEH 12:39 And from above the gate of Ephraim, and above the old gate,
and above the fish gate, and the tower of Hananeel, and the tower of
Meah, even unto the sheep gate: and they stood still in the prison gate.
NEH 12:40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the
house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me:
NEH 12:41 And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah,
Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;
NEH 12:42 And Maaseiah, and Shemaiah, and Eleazar, and Uzzi, and
Jehohanan, and Malchijah, and Elam, and Ezer. And the singers sang loud,
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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: reproofs of instruction are the way of life:
PRO 6:24 To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the
tongue of a strange woman.
PRO 6:25 Lust not after her beauty in thine heart; neither let her take
thee with her eyelids.
PRO 6:26 For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of
bread: and the adultress will hunt for the precious life.
PRO 6:27 Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be
burned?
PRO 6:28 Can one go upon hot coals, and his feet not be burned?
PRO 6:29 So he that goeth in to his neighbour's wife; whosoever
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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: which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and
from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the
islands of the sea.
ISA 11:12 And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall
assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of
Judah from the four corners of the earth.
ISA 11:13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of
Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall
not vex Ephraim.
ISA 11:14 But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines
toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall
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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: unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his
mother's milk.
EXO 34:27 And the LORD said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for
after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with
Israel.
EXO 34:28 And he was there with the LORD forty days and forty nights;
he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables
the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
EXO 34:29 And it came to pass, when Moses came down from mount Sinai
with the two tables of testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from
the mount, that Moses wist not that the skin of his face shone while he
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