| 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: to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.
LUK 1:18 And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this?
for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.
LUK 1:19 And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that
stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to
shew thee these glad tidings.
LUK 1:20 And, behold, thou shalt be dumb, and not able to speak, until
the day that these things shall be performed, because thou believest not
my words, which shall be fulfilled in their season.
LUK 1:21 And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he
tarried so long in the temple.
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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: EST 5:7 Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is;
EST 5:8 If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it
please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the
king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I
will do to morrow as the king hath said.
EST 5:9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart:
but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up,
nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
EST 5:10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home,
he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.
EST 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the
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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: the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
JER 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?
Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
JER 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they
have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
JER 8:10 Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their
fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least
even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even
unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
JER 8:11 For they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people
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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: ephod inward.
EXO 39:20 And they made two other golden rings, and put them on the two
sides of the ephod underneath, toward the forepart of it, over against
the other coupling thereof, above the curious girdle of the ephod.
EXO 39:21 And they did bind the breastplate by his rings unto the rings
of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it might be above the curious
girdle of the ephod, and that the breastplate might not be loosed from
the ephod; as the LORD commanded Moses.
EXO 39:22 And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue.
EXO 39:23 And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole
of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not
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