| 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: CO1 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
CO1 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a
time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come
together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
CO1 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
CO1 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man
hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after
that.
CO1 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for
them if they abide even as I.
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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: HOS 9:7 The days of visitation are come, the days of recompence are
come; Israel shall know it: the prophet is a fool, the spiritual man is
mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great hatred.
HOS 9:8 The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a
snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.
HOS 9:9 They have deeply corrupted themselves, as in the days of
Gibeah: therefore he will remember their iniquity, he will visit their
sins.
HOS 9:10 I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your
fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they
went to Baalpeor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their
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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: ISA 42:23 Who among you will give ear to this? who will hearken and
hear for the time to come?
ISA 42:24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did
not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in
his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
ISA 42:25 Therefore he hath poured upon him the fury of his anger, and
the strength of battle: and it hath set him on fire round about, yet he
knew not; and it burned him, yet he laid it not to heart.
ISA 43:1 But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he
that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have
called thee by thy name; thou art mine.
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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: burnt offering:
NUM 7:22 One kid of the goats for a sin offering:
NUM 7:23 And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams,
five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of
Nethaneel the son of Zuar.
NUM 7:24 On the third day Eliab the son of Helon, prince of the
children of Zebulun, did offer:
NUM 7:25 His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an
hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after
the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled
with oil for a meat offering:
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