| 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: there were thunders and lightnings, and a thick cloud upon the mount,
and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud; so that all the people that
was in the camp trembled.
EXO 19:17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet
with God; and they stood at the nether part of the mount.
EXO 19:18 And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD
descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke
of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
EXO 19:19 And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed
louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
EXO 19:20 And the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of 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: the first month of the second year after they were come out of the land
of Egypt, saying,
NUM 9:2 Let the children of Israel also keep the passover at his
appointed season.
NUM 9:3 In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it
in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according
to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.
NUM 9:4 And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should
keep the passover.
NUM 9:5 And they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the first
month at even in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that the LORD
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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: lord the king, All that thou didst send for to thy servant at the first
I will do: but this thing I may not do. And the messengers departed, and
brought him word again.
KI1 20:10 And Benhadad sent unto him, and said, The gods do so unto me,
and more also, if the dust of Samaria shall suffice for handfuls for all
the people that follow me.
KI1 20:11 And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not
him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
KI1 20:12 And it came to pass, when Ben-hadad heard this message, as he
was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his
servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array
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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: the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
NUM 7:26 One golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense:
NUM 7:27 One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a
burnt offering:
NUM 7:28 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
NUM 7:29 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of
Eliab the son of Helon.
NUM 7:30 On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the
children of Reuben, did offer:
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