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: spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no
discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are
given to it.
ECC 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that
is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over
another to his own hurt.
ECC 8:10 And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the
place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so
done: this is also vanity.
ECC 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed
speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to
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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: better with me than now.
HOS 2:8 For she did not know that I gave her corn, and wine, and oil,
and multiplied her silver and gold, which they prepared for Baal.
HOS 2:9 Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time
thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and
my flax given to cover her nakedness.
HOS 2:10 And now will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her
lovers, and none shall deliver her out of mine hand.
HOS 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her
new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
HOS 2:12 And I will destroy her vines and her fig trees, whereof she
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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: HAG 2:14 Then answered Haggai, and said, So is this people, and so is
this nation before me, saith the LORD; and so is every work of their
hands; and that which they offer there is unclean.
HAG 2:15 And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from
before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the LORD:
HAG 2:16 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty
measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw
out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
HAG 2:17 I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all
the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the LORD.
HAG 2:18 Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and
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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: NUM 7:37 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
NUM 7:38 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
NUM 7:39 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
NUM 7:40 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
NUM 7:41 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of
Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai.
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