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: LAM 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of
my city.
LAM 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
LAM 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone
upon me.
LAM 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
LAM 3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
LAM 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing,
at my cry.
LAM 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou
saidst, Fear not.
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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: JOH 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews:
for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was
Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
JOH 9:23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.
JOH 9:24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto
him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.
JOH 9:25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know
not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
JOH 9:26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened
he thine eyes?
JOH 9:27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not
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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: Babylon shall fall the slain of all the earth.
JER 51:50 Ye that have escaped the sword, go away, stand not still:
remember the LORD afar off, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.
JER 51:51 We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath
covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the
LORD's house.
JER 51:52 Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will
do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded
shall groan.
JER 51:53 Though Babylon should mount up to heaven, and though she
should fortify the height of her strength, yet from me shall spoilers
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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: PRO 5:22 His own iniquities shall take the wicked himself, and he shall
be holden with the cords of his sins.
PRO 5:23 He shall die without instruction; and in the greatness of his
folly he shall go astray.
PRO 6:1 My son, if thou be surety for thy friend, if thou hast stricken
thy hand with a stranger,
PRO 6:2 Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken
with the words of thy mouth.
PRO 6:3 Do this now, my son, and deliver thyself, when thou art come
into the hand of thy friend; go, humble thyself, and make sure thy
friend.
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