| 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: KI1 8:50 And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all
their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and
give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may
have compassion on them:
KI1 8:51 For they be thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou
broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron:
KI1 8:52 That thine eyes may be open unto the supplication of thy
servant, and unto the supplication of thy people Israel, to hearken unto
them in all that they call for unto thee.
KI1 8:53 For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the
earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy
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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: slanderest thine own mother's son.
PSA 50:21 These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou
thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will
reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.
PSA 50:22 Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear you in
pieces, and there be none to deliver.
PSA 50:23 Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth
his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God.
PSA 51:1 Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness:
according unto the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my
transgressions.
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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: of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities,
and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they
set down the ark of the LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the
field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
SA1 6:19 And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked
into the ark of the LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and
threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had
smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
SA1 6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before
this holy LORD God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
SA1 6:21 And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim,
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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: chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white
appear which was in the rods.
GEN 30:38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in
the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that
they should conceive when they came to drink.
GEN 30:39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth
cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
GEN 30:40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the
flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban;
and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's
cattle.
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