| 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: is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
ECC 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man
the better?
ECC 6:12 For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the
days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a
man what shall be after him under the sun?
ECC 7:1 A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of
death than the day of one's birth.
ECC 7:2 It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the
house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will
lay it to his heart.
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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: LEV 25:9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubile to sound on
the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye
make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
LEV 25:10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty
throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a
jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and
ye shall return every man unto his family.
LEV 25:11 A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto you: ye shall not
sow, neither reap that which groweth of itself in it, nor gather the
grapes in it of thy vine undressed.
LEV 25:12 For it is the jubile; it shall be holy unto you: ye shall eat
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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: GEN 27:29 Let people serve thee, and nations bow down to thee: be lord
over thy brethren, and let thy mother's sons bow down to thee: cursed be
every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.
GEN 27:30 And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of
blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of
Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.
GEN 27:31 And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his
father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his
son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
GEN 27:32 And Isaac his father said unto him, Who art thou? And he
said, I am thy son, thy firstborn Esau.
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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: burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth
therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim,
which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
DEU 29:24 Even all nations shall say, Wherefore hath the LORD done thus
unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?
DEU 29:25 Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant
of the LORD God of their fathers, which he made with them when he
brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:
DEU 29:26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them,
gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given unto them:
DEU 29:27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land, to
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