| 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: JOH 10:32 Jesus answered them, Many good works have I shewed you from
my Father; for which of those works do ye stone me?
JOH 10:33 The Jews answered him, saying, For a good work we stone thee
not; but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, makest
thyself God.
JOH 10:34 Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said,
Ye are gods?
JOH 10:35 If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and
the scripture cannot be broken;
JOH 10:36 Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into
the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?
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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: GEN 32:15 Thirty milch camels with their colts, forty kine, and ten
bulls, twenty she asses, and ten foals.
GEN 32:16 And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every
drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me,
and put a space betwixt drove and drove.
GEN 32:17 And he commanded the foremost, saying, When Esau my brother
meeteth thee, and asketh thee, saying, Whose art thou? and whither goest
thou? and whose are these before thee?
GEN 32:18 Then thou shalt say, They be thy servant Jacob's; it is a
present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, also he is behind us.
GEN 32:19 And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that
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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: was like the sole of a calf's foot: and they sparkled like the colour of
burnished brass.
EZE 1:8 And they had the hands of a man under their wings on their four
sides; and they four had their faces and their wings.
EZE 1:9 Their wings were joined one to another; they turned not when
they went; they went every one straight forward.
EZE 1:10 As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of
a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the
face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.
EZE 1:11 Thus were their faces: and their wings were stretched upward;
two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their
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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: MAT 5:6 Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after
righteousness: for they shall be filled.
MAT 5:7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
MAT 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
MAT 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the
children of God.
MAT 5:10 Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
MAT 5:11 Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you,
and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake.
MAT 5:12 Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in
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