| 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: they come to Gibeah of Benjamin, according to all the folly that they
have wrought in Israel.
JDG 20:11 So all the men of Israel were gathered against the city, knit
together as one man.
JDG 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of
Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is done among you?
JDG 20:13 Now therefore deliver us the men, the children of Belial,
which are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil
from Israel. But the children of Benjamin would not hearken to the voice
of their brethren the children of Israel.
JDG 20:14 But the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out
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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 26:7 And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before
you by the sword.
LEV 26:8 And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you
shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you
by the sword.
LEV 26:9 For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and
multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
LEV 26:10 And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because
of the new.
LEV 26:11 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not
abhor you.
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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: do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousnesses,
but for thy great mercies.
DAN 9:19 O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, hearken and do; defer
not, for thine own sake, O my God: for thy city and thy people are
called by thy name.
DAN 9:20 And whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin
and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before
the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
DAN 9:21 Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel,
whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly
swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
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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: them.
JDG 20:46 So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and
five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.
JDG 20:47 But six hundred men turned and fled to the wilderness unto
the rock Rimmon, and abode in the rock Rimmon four months.
JDG 20:48 And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of
Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, as well the men of
every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on
fire all the cities that they came to.
JDG 21:1 Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall
not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.
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