| 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: SA2 5:7 Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is
the city of David.
SA2 5:8 And David said on that day, Whosoever getteth up to the gutter,
and smiteth the Jebusites, and the lame and the blind that are hated of
David's soul, he shall be chief and captain. Wherefore they said, The
blind and the lame shall not come into the house.
SA2 5:9 So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David.
And David built round about from Millo and inward.
SA2 5:10 And David went on, and grew great, and the LORD God of hosts
was with him.
SA2 5:11 And Hiram king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
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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: lip, they shake the head, saying,
PSA 22:8 He trusted on the LORD that he would deliver him: let him
deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
PSA 22:9 But thou art he that took me out of the womb: thou didst make
me hope when I was upon my mother's breasts.
PSA 22:10 I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my
mother's belly.
PSA 22:11 Be not far from me; for trouble is near; for there is none to
help.
PSA 22:12 Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have
beset me round.
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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: purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the LORD; and that
soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was
not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon
him.
NUM 19:14 This is the law, when a man dieth in a tent: all that come
into the tent, and all that is in the tent, shall be unclean seven days.
NUM 19:15 And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it,
is unclean.
NUM 19:16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the
open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be
unclean seven days.
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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: EZE 31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and
all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:
EZE 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt
themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick
boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink
water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the
earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to
the pit.
EZE 31:15 Thus saith the Lord GOD; In the day when he went down to the
grave I caused a mourning: I covered the deep for him, and I restrained
the floods thereof, and the great waters were stayed: and I caused
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