| 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: yet what I shall choose I wot not.
PHI 1:23 For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart,
and to be with Christ; which is far better:
PHI 1:24 Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.
PHI 1:25 And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and
continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;
PHI 1:26 That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for
me by my coming to you again.
PHI 1:27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of
Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear
of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind
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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 12:8 For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not
always.
JOH 12:9 Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and
they came not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might see Lazarus
also, whom he had raised from the dead.
JOH 12:10 But the chief priests consulted that they might put Lazarus
also to death;
JOH 12:11 Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and
believed on Jesus.
JOH 12:12 On the next day much people that were come to the feast, when
they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem,
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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: come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons' wives
with thee.
GEN 6:19 And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort
shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall
be male and female.
GEN 6:20 Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of
every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort
shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.
GEN 6:21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou
shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for
them.
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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 10:37 If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.
JOH 10:38 But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works:
that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
JOH 10:39 Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out
of their hand,
JOH 10:40 And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John
at first baptized; and there he abode.
JOH 10:41 And many resorted unto him, and said, John did no miracle:
but all things that John spake of this man were true.
JOH 10:42 And many believed on him there.
JOH 11:1 Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the
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