| 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: stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed:
EXO 21:19 If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall
he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time,
and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
EXO 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and
he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.
EXO 21:21 Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be
punished: for he is his money.
EXO 21:22 If men strive, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit
depart from her, and yet no mischief follow: he shall be surely
punished, according as the woman's husband will lay upon him; and he
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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: KI1 15:28 Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay
him, and reigned in his stead.
KI1 15:29 And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the
house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he
had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the LORD, which he spake
by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
KI1 15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he
made Israel sin, by his provocation wherewith he provoked the LORD God
of Israel to anger.
KI1 15:31 Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are
they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
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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: stood forth.
LUK 6:9 Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it
lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or
to destroy it?
LUK 6:10 And looking round about upon them all, he said unto the man,
Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole
as the other.
LUK 6:11 And they were filled with madness; and communed one with
another what they might do to Jesus.
LUK 6:12 And it came to pass in those days, that he went out into a
mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God.
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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: they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the
firstborn son be hers that was hated:
DEU 21:16 Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that
which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn
before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:
DEU 21:17 But he shall acknowledge the son of the hated for the
firstborn, by giving him a double portion of all that he hath: for he is
the beginning of his strength; the right of the firstborn is his.
DEU 21:18 If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not
obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when
they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
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