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: COL 2:3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
COL 2:4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing
words.
COL 2:5 For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the
spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your
faith in Christ.
COL 2:6 As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye
in him:
COL 2:7 Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye
have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.
COL 2:8 Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain
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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 13:20 It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in
from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent
there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.
ISA 13:21 But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their
houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there,
and satyrs shall dance there.
ISA 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their
desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is
near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.
ISA 14:1 For the LORD will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose
Israel, and set them in their own land: and the strangers shall 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: tithes, to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions
of the law for the priests and Levites: for Judah rejoiced for the
priests and for the Levites that waited.
NEH 12:45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their
God, and the ward of the purification, according to the commandment of
David, and of Solomon his son.
NEH 12:46 For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of
the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.
NEH 12:47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel, and in the days of
Nehemiah, gave the portions of the singers and the porters, every day
his portion: and they sanctified holy things unto the Levites; and the
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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: are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
ISA 1:15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes
from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands
are full of blood.
ISA 1:16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings
from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
ISA 1:17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge
the fatherless, plead for the widow.
ISA 1:18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though
your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be
red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
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