| 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 7:4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat
not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold,
as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
MAR 7:5 Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy
disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with
unwashen hands?
MAR 7:6 He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of
you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their
lips, but their heart is far from me.
MAR 7:7 Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the
commandments of men.
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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: the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and
upward.
SA1 10:24 And Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD
hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all
the people shouted, and said, God save the king.
SA1 10:25 Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and
wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all
the people away, every man to his house.
SA1 10:26 And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a
band of men, whose hearts God had touched.
SA1 10:27 But the children of Belial said, How shall this man save us?
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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: camels, and five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she asses, and a
very great household; so that this man was the greatest of all the men
of the east.
JOB 1:4 And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his
day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink
with them.
JOB 1:5 And it was so, when the days of their feasting were gone about,
that Job sent and sanctified them, and rose up early in the morning, and
offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all: for Job
said, It may be that my sons have sinned, and cursed God in their
hearts. Thus did Job continually.
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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: Joshua the son of Nun.
NUM 14:31 But your little ones, which ye said should be a prey, them
will I bring in, and they shall know the land which ye have despised.
NUM 14:32 But as for you, your carcases, they shall fall in this
wilderness.
NUM 14:33 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years,
and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
NUM 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
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