| 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: SA1 26:6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to
Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down
with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.
SA1 26:7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night: and, behold,
Saul lay sleeping within the trench, and his spear stuck in the ground
at his bolster: but Abner and the people lay round about him.
SA1 26:8 Then said Abishai to David, God hath delivered thine enemy
into thine hand this day: now therefore let me smite him, I pray thee,
with the spear even to the earth at once, and I will not smite him the
second time.
SA1 26:9 And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not: for who can
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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: LEV 27:18 But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the
priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that
remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from
thy estimation.
LEV 27:19 And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem
it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto
it, and it shall be assured to him.
LEV 27:20 And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the
field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.
LEV 27:21 But the field, when it goeth out in the jubile, shall be holy
unto the LORD, as a field devoted; the possession thereof shall be 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: wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
LAM 1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth
against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:
he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
LAM 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are
wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall,
the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to
rise up.
LAM 1:15 The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the
midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young
men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a
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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: PSA 106:29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions: and
the plague brake in upon them.
PSA 106:30 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the
plague was stayed.
PSA 106:31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all
generations for evermore.
PSA 106:32 They angered him also at the waters of strife, so that it
went ill with Moses for their sakes:
PSA 106:33 Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake
unadvisedly with his lips.
PSA 106:34 They did not destroy the nations, concerning whom the LORD
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