| 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: PSA 88:11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy
faithfulness in destruction?
PSA 88:12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness
in the land of forgetfulness?
PSA 88:13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall
my prayer prevent thee.
PSA 88:14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face
from me?
PSA 88:15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I
suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
PSA 88:16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
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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: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.
PSA 82:1 God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth
among the gods.
PSA 82:2 How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the persons of the
wicked? Selah.
PSA 82:3 Defend the poor and fatherless: do justice to the afflicted
and needy.
PSA 82:4 Deliver the poor and needy: rid them out of the hand of the
wicked.
PSA 82:5 They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in
darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.
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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: Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to
give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art
righteous:
NEH 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and
heardest their cry by the Red sea;
NEH 9:10 And shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his
servants, and on all the people of his land: for thou knewest that they
dealt proudly against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this
day.
NEH 9:11 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went
through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou
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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: and pardon our iniquity and our sin, and take us for thine inheritance.
EXO 34:10 And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people
I will do marvels, such as have not been done in all the earth, nor in
any nation: and all the people among which thou art shall see the work
of the LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
EXO 34:11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I
drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite,
and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
EXO 34:12 Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the
inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in
the midst of thee:
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