| 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: the people in the temple, and preached the gospel, the chief priests and
the scribes came upon him with the elders,
LUK 20:2 And spake unto him, saying, Tell us, by what authority doest
thou these things? or who is he that gave thee this authority?
LUK 20:3 And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one
thing; and answer me:
LUK 20:4 The baptism of John, was it from heaven, or of men?
LUK 20:5 And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say,
From heaven; he will say, Why then believed ye him not?
LUK 20:6 But and if we say, Of men; all the people will stone us: for
they be persuaded that John was a prophet.
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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: because he is thy seed.
GEN 21:14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and
a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder,
and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the
wilderness of Beersheba.
GEN 21:15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child
under one of the shrubs.
GEN 21:16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way
off, as it were a bow shot: for she said, Let me not see the death of
the child. And she sat over against him, and lift up her voice, and
wept.
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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: land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up
as the smoke of a furnace.
GEN 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the
overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.
GEN 19:30 And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and
his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt
in a cave, he and his two daughters.
GEN 19:31 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old,
and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner
of all the earth:
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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: their nets.
MAR 1:20 And straightway he called them: and they left their father
Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
MAR 1:21 And they went into Capernaum; and straightway on the sabbath
day he entered into the synagogue, and taught.
MAR 1:22 And they were astonished at his doctrine: for he taught them
as one that had authority, and not as the scribes.
MAR 1:23 And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit;
and he cried out,
MAR 1:24 Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus
of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the
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