| 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: be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it
shall even be for briers and thorns.
ISA 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all
the land shall become briers and thorns.
ISA 7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there
shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be
for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.
ISA 8:1 Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and
write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.
ISA 8:2 And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the
priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
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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: defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.
ISA 19:7 The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and
every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no
more.
ISA 19:8 The fishers also shall mourn, and all they that cast angle
into the brooks shall lament, and they that spread nets upon the waters
shall languish.
ISA 19:9 Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave
networks, shall be confounded.
ISA 19:10 And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that
make sluices and ponds for fish.
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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: me, Take up thy bed, and walk.
JOH 5:12 Then asked they him, What man is that which said unto thee,
Take up thy bed, and walk?
JOH 5:13 And he that was healed wist not who it was: for Jesus had
conveyed himself away, a multitude being in that place.
JOH 5:14 Afterward Jesus findeth him in the temple, and said unto him,
Behold, thou art made whole: sin no more, lest a worse thing come unto
thee.
JOH 5:15 The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which
had made him whole.
JOH 5:16 And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay
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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: were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side:
and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
JOS 8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
JOS 8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword,
until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and
smote it with the edge of the sword.
JOS 8:25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and
women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.
JOS 8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out
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