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: DEU 1:12 How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden,
and your strife?
DEU 1:13 Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your
tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.
DEU 1:14 And ye answered me, and said, The thing which thou hast spoken
is good for us to do.
DEU 1:15 So I took the chief of your tribes, wise men, and known, and
made them heads over you, captains over thousands, and captains over
hundreds, and captains over fifties, and captains over tens, and
officers among your tribes.
DEU 1:16 And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear 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: all, and followed him.
LUK 5:12 And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a
man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought
him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.
LUK 5:13 And he put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will: be
thou clean. And immediately the leprosy departed from him.
LUK 5:14 And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to
the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded,
for a testimony unto them.
LUK 5:15 But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and
great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their
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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: the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which
are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
KI1 13:33 After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way, but
made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places:
whosoever would, he consecrated him, and he became one of the priests of
the high places.
KI1 13:34 And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to
cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.
KI1 14:1 At that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam fell sick.
KI1 14:2 And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and
disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and
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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 prophet Jeremiah, saying,
JER 28:13 Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast
broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron.
JER 28:14 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have
put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may
serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I
have given him the beasts of the field also.
JER 28:15 Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet,
Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this
people to trust in a lie.
JER 28:16 Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from
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