| 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: suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
ACT 2:28 Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make
me full of joy with thy countenance.
ACT 2:29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the
patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is
with us unto this day.
ACT 2:30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with
an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh,
he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
ACT 2:31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ,
that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see
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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: MAR 12:24 And Jesus answering said unto them, Do ye not therefore err,
because ye know not the scriptures, neither the power of God?
MAR 12:25 For when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry,
nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.
MAR 12:26 And as touching the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in
the book of Moses, how in the bush God spake unto him, saying, I am the
God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob?
MAR 12:27 He is not the God of the dead, but the God of the living: ye
therefore do greatly err.
MAR 12:28 And one of the scribes came, and having heard them reasoning
together, and perceiving that he had answered them well, asked him,
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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: LEV 8:25 And he took the fat, and the rump, and all the fat that was
upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and
their fat, and the right shoulder:
LEV 8:26 And out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before the
LORD, he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one
wafer, and put them on the fat, and upon the right shoulder:
LEV 8:27 And he put all upon Aaron's hands, and upon his sons' hands,
and waved them for a wave offering before the LORD.
LEV 8:28 And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on
the altar upon the burnt offering: they were consecrations for a sweet
savour: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
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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: and they that sell them say, Blessed be the LORD; for I am rich: and
their own shepherds pity them not.
ZEC 11:6 For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the
LORD: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's
hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and
out of their hand I will not deliver them.
ZEC 11:7 And I will feed the flock of slaughter, even you, O poor of
the flock. And I took unto me two staves; the one I called Beauty, and
the other I called Bands; and I fed the flock.
ZEC 11:8 Three shepherds also I cut off in one month; and my soul
lothed them, and their soul also abhorred me.
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