| 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: that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
MAT 11:12 And from the days of John the Baptist until now the kingdom
of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.
MAT 11:13 For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.
MAT 11:14 And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to
come.
MAT 11:15 He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.
MAT 11:16 But whereunto shall I liken this generation? It is like unto
children sitting in the markets, and calling unto their fellows,
MAT 11:17 And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced;
we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
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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: committeth adultery: and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from
her husband committeth adultery.
LUK 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and
fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
LUK 16:20 And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid
at his gate, full of sores,
LUK 16:21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the
rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.
LUK 16:22 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by
the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
LUK 16:23 And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth
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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: Eliadah, which fled from his lord Hadadezer king of Zobah:
KI1 11:24 And he gathered men unto him, and became captain over a band,
when David slew them of Zobah: and they went to Damascus, and dwelt
therein, and reigned in Damascus.
KI1 11:25 And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon,
beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned
over Syria.
KI1 11:26 And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zereda,
Solomon's servant, whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman, even
he lifted up his hand against the king.
KI1 11:27 And this was the cause that he lifted up his hand against 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: EZR 1:9 And this is the number of them: thirty chargers of gold, a
thousand chargers of silver, nine and twenty knives,
EZR 1:10 Thirty basons of gold, silver basons of a second sort four
hundred and ten, and other vessels a thousand.
EZR 1:11 All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and
four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the
captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.
EZR 2:1 Now these are the children of the province that went up out of
the captivity, of those which had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar
the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and came again unto
Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;
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