| 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: bidden, Come; for all things are now ready.
LUK 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first
said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and
see it: I pray thee have me excused.
LUK 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go
to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.
LUK 14:20 And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I
cannot come.
LUK 14:21 So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then
the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly
into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor,
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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: and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from
Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
JER 24:2 One basket had very good figs, even like the figs that are
first ripe: and the other basket had very naughty figs, which could not
be eaten, they were so bad.
JER 24:3 Then said the LORD unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I
said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that
cannot be eaten, they are so evil.
JER 24:4 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,
JER 24:5 Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Like these good figs,
so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom
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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: destroy Assyria; and will make Nineveh a desolation, and dry like a
wilderness.
ZEP 2:14 And flocks shall lie down in the midst of her, all the beasts
of the nations: both the cormorant and the bittern shall lodge in the
upper lintels of it; their voice shall sing in the windows; desolation
shall be in the thresholds; for he shall uncover the cedar work.
ZEP 2:15 This is the rejoicing city that dwelt carelessly, that said in
her heart, I am, and there is none beside me: how is she become a
desolation, a place for beasts to lie down in! every one that passeth by
her shall hiss, and wag his hand.
ZEP 3:1 Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
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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: JOH 15:14 Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
JOH 15:15 Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth
not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things
that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you.
JOH 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained
you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should
remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father in my name, he may
give it you.
JOH 15:17 These things I command you, that ye love one another.
JOH 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you.
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