| 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: is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and
after that they go to the dead.
ECC 9:4 For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for
a living dog is better than a dead lion.
ECC 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not
any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them
is forgotten.
ECC 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now
perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing
that is done under the sun.
ECC 9:7 Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a
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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: ISA 1:3 The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but
Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.
ISA 1:4 Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of
evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD,
they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away
backward.
ISA 1:5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and
more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
ISA 1:6 From the sole of the foot even unto the head there is no
soundness in it; but wounds, and bruises, and putrifying sores: they
have not been closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment.
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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: only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.
GEN 27:14 And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and
his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.
GEN 27:15 And Rebekah took goodly raiment of her eldest son Esau, which
were with her in the house, and put them upon Jacob her younger son:
GEN 27:16 And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his
hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:
GEN 27:17 And she gave the savoury meat and the bread, which she had
prepared, into the hand of her son Jacob.
GEN 27:18 And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he
said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?
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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: judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:
ACT 24:11 Because that thou mayest understand, that there are yet but
twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem for to worship.
ACT 24:12 And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any
man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in
the city:
ACT 24:13 Neither can they prove the things whereof they now accuse me.
ACT 24:14 But this I confess unto thee, that after the way which they
call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things
which are written in the law and in the prophets:
ACT 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
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