| 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: NUM 21:4 And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea,
to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much
discouraged because of the way.
NUM 21:5 And the people spake against God, and against Moses, Wherefore
have ye brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? for there
is no bread, neither is there any water; and our soul loatheth this
light bread.
NUM 21:6 And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they
bit the people; and much people of Israel died.
NUM 21:7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, We have sinned,
for we have spoken against the LORD, and against thee; pray unto the
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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: from the street of Bethshan, where the Philistines had hanged them, when
the Philistines had slain Saul in Gilboa:
SA2 21:13 And he brought up from thence the bones of Saul and the bones
of Jonathan his son; and they gathered the bones of them that were
hanged.
SA2 21:14 And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the
country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and
they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was
intreated for the land.
SA2 21:15 Moreover the Philistines had yet war again with Israel; and
David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against 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: of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose
number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.
CH1 7:3 And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah;
Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.
CH1 7:4 And with them, by their generations, after the house of their
fathers, were bands of soldiers for war, six and thirty thousand men:
for they had many wives and sons.
CH1 7:5 And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were
valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and
seven thousand.
CH1 7:6 The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.
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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: Philistines, and smote them, until they came under Bethcar.
SA1 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen,
and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto hath the LORD
helped us.
SA1 7:13 So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into
the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the
Philistines all the days of Samuel.
SA1 7:14 And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel
were restored to Israel, from Ekron even unto Gath; and the coasts
thereof did Israel deliver out of the hands of the Philistines. And
there was peace between Israel and the Amorites.
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