| 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: vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with
precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.
EZR 1:7 Also Cyrus the king brought forth the vessels of the house of
the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had brought forth out of Jerusalem, and
had put them in the house of his gods;
EZR 1:8 Even those did Cyrus king of Persia bring forth by the hand of
Mithredath the treasurer, and numbered them unto Sheshbazzar, the prince
of Judah.
EZR 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
EZR 1:10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four
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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: DEU 27:8 And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law
very plainly.
DEU 27:9 And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel,
saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the
people of the LORD thy God.
DEU 27:10 Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the LORD thy God, and
do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
DEU 27:11 And Moses charged the people the same day, saying,
DEU 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people,
when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar,
and Joseph, and Benjamin:
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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: meat.
JOB 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them
as after a thief;)
JOB 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth,
and in the rocks.
JOB 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were
gathered together.
JOB 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they
were viler than the earth.
JOB 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
JOB 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit
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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: attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the
manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
EZE 23:16 And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon
them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.
EZE 23:17 And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and
they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them,
and her mind was alienated from them.
EZE 23:18 So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her
nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was
alienated from her sister.
EZE 23:19 Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance
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