| 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: PRO 26:19 So is the man that deceiveth his neighbour, and saith, Am not
I in sport?
PRO 26:20 Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is
no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.
PRO 26:21 As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a
contentious man to kindle strife.
PRO 26:22 The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down
into the innermost parts of the belly.
PRO 26:23 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered
with silver dross.
PRO 26:24 He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up
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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: country, saw her, he took her, and lay with her, and defiled her.
GEN 34:3 And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he
loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
GEN 34:4 And Shechem spake unto his father Hamor, saying, Get me this
damsel to wife.
GEN 34:5 And Jacob heard that he had defiled Dinah his daughter: now
his sons were with his cattle in the field: and Jacob held his peace
until they were come.
GEN 34:6 And Hamor the father of Shechem went out unto Jacob to commune
with him.
GEN 34:7 And the sons of Jacob came out of the field when they heard
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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: were choked.
LUK 8:34 When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went
and told it in the city and in the country.
LUK 8:35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus,
and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the
feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
LUK 8:36 They also which saw it told them by what means he that was
possessed of the devils was healed.
LUK 8:37 Then the whole multitude of the country of the Gadarenes round
about besought him to depart from them; for they were taken with great
fear: and he went up into the ship, and returned back again.
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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 should go.
NEH 9:13 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them
from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good
statutes and commandments:
NEH 9:14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst
them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:
NEH 9:15 And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and
broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and
promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou
hadst sworn to give them.
NEH 9:16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their
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