| 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: and parted my land.
JOE 3:3 And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for
an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
JOE 3:4 Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all
the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye
recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon
your own head;
JOE 3:5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried
into your temples my goodly pleasant things:
JOE 3:6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have
ye sold unto the Grecians, that ye might remove them far from their
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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: kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.
LUK 10:12 But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that
day for Sodom, than for that city.
LUK 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in
you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes.
LUK 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
judgment, than for you.
LUK 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be
thrust down to hell.
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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: the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks, and
also the standing corn, with the vineyards and olives.
JDG 15:6 Then the Philistines said, Who hath done this? And they
answered, Samson, the son in law of the Timnite, because he had taken
his wife, and given her to his companion. And the Philistines came up,
and burnt her and her father with fire.
JDG 15:7 And Samson said unto them, Though ye have done this, yet will
I be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
JDG 15:8 And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he
went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.
JDG 15:9 Then the Philistines went up, and pitched in Judah, and spread
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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: among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his
fruit was sweet to my taste.
SON 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me
was love.
SON 2:5 Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of
love.
SON 2:6 His left hand is under my head, and his right hand doth embrace
me.
SON 2:7 I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by
the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he
please.
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