| 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: insurrection with one accord against Paul, and brought him to the
judgment seat,
ACT 18:13 Saying, This fellow persuadeth men to worship God contrary to
the law.
ACT 18:14 And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said
unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye
Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:
ACT 18:15 But if it be a question of words and names, and of your law,
look ye to it; for I will be no judge of such matters.
ACT 18:16 And he drave them from the judgment seat.
ACT 18:17 Then all the Greeks took Sosthenes, the chief ruler of the
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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: NEH 5:8 And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our
brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even
sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their
peace, and found nothing to answer.
NEH 5:9 Also I said, It is not good that ye do: ought ye not to walk in
the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies?
NEH 5:10 I likewise, and my brethren, and my servants, might exact of
them money and corn: I pray you, let us leave off this usury.
NEH 5:11 Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their lands,
their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth
part of the money, and of the corn, the wine, and the oil, that ye exact
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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: be?
JER 14:1 The word of the LORD that came to Jeremiah concerning the
dearth.
JER 14:2 Judah mourneth, and the gates thereof languish; they are black
unto the ground; and the cry of Jerusalem is gone up.
JER 14:3 And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters:
they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their
vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their
heads.
JER 14:4 Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the
earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
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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: covet; and if there be any other commandment, it is briefly comprehended
in this saying, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
ROM 13:10 Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the
fulfilling of the law.
ROM 13:11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake
out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
ROM 13:12 The night is far spent, the day is at hand: let us therefore
cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armour of light.
ROM 13:13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and
drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and
envying.
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