| 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: LUK 7:33 For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking
wine; and ye say, He hath a devil.
LUK 7:34 The Son of man is come eating and drinking; and ye say, Behold
a gluttonous man, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners!
LUK 7:35 But wisdom is justified of all her children.
LUK 7:36 And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with
him. And he went into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.
LUK 7:37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she
knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an
alabaster box of ointment,
LUK 7:38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash
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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: the green herb have I given you all things.
GEN 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof,
shall ye not eat.
GEN 9:5 And surely your blood of your lives will I require; at the hand
of every beast will I require it, and at the hand of man; at the hand of
every man's brother will I require the life of man.
GEN 9:6 Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for
in the image of God made he man.
GEN 9:7 And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly
in the earth, and multiply therein.
GEN 9:8 And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,
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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: Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the
imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.
JER 23:18 For who hath stood in the counsel of the LORD, and hath
perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
JER 23:19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a
grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the
wicked.
JER 23:20 The anger of the LORD shall not return, until he have
executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the
latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
JER 23:21 I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran: I have not
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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: JER 32:1 The word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year
of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of
Nebuchadrezzar.
JER 32:2 For then the king of Babylon's army besieged Jerusalem: and
Jeremiah the prophet was shut up in the court of the prison, which was
in the king of Judah's house.
JER 32:3 For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore
dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will give
this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;
JER 32:4 And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of
the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king
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