| 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 102:3 For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned
as an hearth.
PSA 102:4 My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I
forget to eat my bread.
PSA 102:5 By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my
skin.
PSA 102:6 I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of
the desert.
PSA 102:7 I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
PSA 102:8 Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad
against me are sworn against me.
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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: JOB 41:28 The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with
him into stubble.
JOB 41:29 Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a
spear.
JOB 41:30 Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things
upon the mire.
JOB 41:31 He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: he maketh the sea like
a pot of ointment.
JOB 41:32 He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep
to be hoary.
JOB 41:33 Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.
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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: said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
ISA 36:8 Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king
of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on
thy part to set riders upon them.
ISA 36:9 How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the
least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots
and for horsemen?
ISA 36:10 And am I now come up without the LORD against this land to
destroy it? the LORD said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy
it.
ISA 36:11 Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
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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: EXO 2:13 And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the
Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong,
Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
EXO 2:14 And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?
intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses
feared, and said, Surely this thing is known.
EXO 2:15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses.
But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of
Midian: and he sat down by a well.
EXO 2:16 Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came
and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father's flock.
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