| 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: KI1 2:14 He said moreover, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And she
said, Say on.
KI1 2:15 And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that
all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the
kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's: for it was his from
the LORD.
KI1 2:16 And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said
unto him, Say on.
KI1 2:17 And he said, Speak, I pray thee, unto Solomon the king, (for
he will not say thee nay,) that he give me Abishag the Shunammite to
wife.
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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: that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust.
ACT 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
void to offence toward God, and toward men.
ACT 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and
offerings.
ACT 24:18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
ACT 24:19 Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they
had ought against me.
ACT 24:20 Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil
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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: MAT 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they
reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are
ye not much better than they?
MAT 6:27 Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his
stature?
MAT 6:28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of
the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:
MAT 6:29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like one of these.
MAT 6:30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to
day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more
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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: and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
GEN 19:25 And he overthrew those cities, and all the plain, and all the
inhabitants of the cities, and that which grew upon the ground.
GEN 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a
pillar of salt.
GEN 19:27 And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he
stood before the LORD:
GEN 19:28 And he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the
land of the plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the country went up
as the smoke of a furnace.
GEN 19:29 And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the
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