| 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: after.
ECC 1:12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
ECC 1:13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom
concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath
God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.
ECC 1:14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and,
behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
ECC 1:15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which
is wanting cannot be numbered.
ECC 1:16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great
estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before
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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: land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
DEU 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led
thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove
thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his
commandments, or no.
DEU 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee
with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that
he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
DEU 8:4 Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot
swell, these forty years.
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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: EPH 4:5 One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
EPH 4:6 One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all,
and in you all.
EPH 4:7 But unto every one of us is given grace according to the
measure of the gift of Christ.
EPH 4:8 Wherefore he saith, When he ascended up on high, he led
captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.
EPH 4:9 (Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended
first into the lower parts of the earth?
EPH 4:10 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above
all heavens, that he might fill all things.)
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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: JOH 6:49 Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead.
JOH 6:50 This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man
may eat thereof, and not die.
JOH 6:51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man
eat of this bread, he shall live for ever: and the bread that I will
give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.
JOH 6:52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can
this man give us his flesh to eat?
JOH 6:53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you,
Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have
no life in you.
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