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: presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own
salvation with fear and trembling.
PHI 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of
his good pleasure.
PHI 2:14 Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
PHI 2:15 That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God,
without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among
whom ye shine as lights in the world;
PHI 2:16 Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day
of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.
PHI 2:17 Yea, and if I be offered upon the sacrifice and service of
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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: LUK 16:15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly
esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
LUK 16:16 The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the
kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.
LUK 16:17 And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass, than one
tittle of the law to fail.
LUK 16:18 Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another,
committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
her husband committeth adultery.
LUK 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
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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: his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?
ECC 2:23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his
heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
ECC 2:24 There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and
drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This
also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.
ECC 2:25 For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?
ECC 2:26 For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and
knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and
to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also
is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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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 LORD your God for ever and ever: and blessed be thy glorious name,
which is exalted above all blessing and praise.
NEH 9:6 Thou, even thou, art LORD alone; thou hast made heaven, the
heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth, and all things that
are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them
all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
NEH 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and
broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name
of Abraham;
NEH 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
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