| 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: shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
MAT 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they?
MAT 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature?
MAT 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
MAT 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.
MAT 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to
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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: LEV 13:23 But if the bright spot stay in his place, and spread not, it
is a burning boil; and the priest shall pronounce him clean.
LEV 13:24 Or if there be any flesh, in the skin whereof there is a hot
burning, and the quick flesh that burneth have a white bright spot,
somewhat reddish, or white;
LEV 13:25 Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the hair
in the bright spot be turned white, and it be in sight deeper than the
skin; it is a leprosy broken out of the burning: wherefore the priest
shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.
LEV 13:26 But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white
hair in the bright spot, and it be no lower than the other skin, but be
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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: JER 43:12 And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt;
and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array
himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment;
and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
JER 43:13 He shall break also the images of Bethshemesh, that is in the
land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn
with fire.
JER 44:1 The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews which
dwell in the land of Egypt, which dwell at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and
at Noph, and in the country of Pathros, saying,
JER 44:2 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Ye have seen
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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: our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion
against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
GEN 43:19 And they came near to the steward of Joseph's house, and they
communed with him at the door of the house,
GEN 43:20 And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy
food:
GEN 43:21 And it came to pass, when we came to the inn, that we opened
our sacks, and, behold, every man's money was in the mouth of his sack,
our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.
GEN 43:22 And other money have we brought down in our hands to buy
food: we cannot tell who put our money in our sacks.
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