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: staves thereof:
NUM 4:12 And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith
they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and
cover them with a covering of badgers' skins, and shall put them on a
bar:
NUM 4:13 And they shall take away the ashes from the altar, and spread
a purple cloth thereon:
NUM 4:14 And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith
they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the
shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall
spread upon it a covering of badgers' skins, and put to the staves of
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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: KI1 8:38 What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by
all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own
heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
KI1 8:39 Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and
do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou
knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the
children of men;)
KI1 8:40 That they may fear thee all the days that they live in the
land which thou gavest unto our fathers.
KI1 8:41 Moreover concerning a stranger, that is not of thy people
Israel, but cometh out of a far country for thy name's sake;
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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: together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the
doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night
will they come to slay thee.
NEH 6:11 And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there,
that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will
not go in.
NEH 6:12 And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he
pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired
him.
NEH 6:13 Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so,
and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they
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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: ROM 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
ROM 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and
envying.
ROM 13:14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision
for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.
ROM 14:1 Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful
disputations.
ROM 14:2 For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is
weak, eateth herbs.
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