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: MAR 15:30 Save thyself, and come down from the cross.
MAR 15:31 Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves
with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.
MAR 15:32 Let Christ the King of Israel descend now from the cross,
that we may see and believe. And they that were crucified with him
reviled him.
MAR 15:33 And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the
whole land until the ninth hour.
MAR 15:34 And at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying,
Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani? which is, being interpreted, My God, my
God, why hast thou forsaken me?
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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: according to the works of their own hands.
JER 25:15 For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine
cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send
thee, to drink it.
JER 25:16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad, because of
the sword that I will send among them.
JER 25:17 Then took I the cup at the LORD's hand, and made all the
nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
JER 25:18 To wit, Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings
thereof, and the princes thereof, to make them a desolation, an
astonishment, an hissing, and a curse; as it is this day;
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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: GEN 41:47 And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by
handfuls.
GEN 41:48 And he gathered up all the food of the seven years, which
were in the land of Egypt, and laid up the food in the cities: the food
of the field, which was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
GEN 41:49 And Joseph gathered corn as the sand of the sea, very much,
until he left numbering; for it was without number.
GEN 41:50 And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine
came, which Asenath the daughter of Potipherah priest of On bare unto
him.
GEN 41:51 And Joseph called the name of the firstborn Manasseh: For
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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: some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
ROM 1:14 I am debtor both to the Greeks, and to the Barbarians; both to
the wise, and to the unwise.
ROM 1:15 So, as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to
you that are at Rome also.
ROM 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew
first, and also to the Greek.
ROM 1:17 For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to
faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.
ROM 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all
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