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: accusation of such things as I supposed:
ACT 25:19 But had certain questions against him of their own
superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be
alive.
ACT 25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked
him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
matters.
ACT 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of
Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
ACT 25:22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man
myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
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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: bowels were moved for him.
SON 5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with
myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the
lock.
SON 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could
not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.
SON 5:7 The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me,
they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.
SON 5:8 I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved,
that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.
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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: may know that this house, which I have builded, is called by thy name.
KI1 8:44 If thy people go out to battle against their enemy,
whithersoever thou shalt send them, and shall pray unto the LORD toward
the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house that I have built
for thy name:
KI1 8:45 Then hear thou in heaven their prayer and their supplication,
and maintain their cause.
KI1 8:46 If they sin against thee, (for there is no man that sinneth
not,) and thou be angry with them, and deliver them to the enemy, so
that they carry them away captives unto the land of the enemy, far or
near;
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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: ACT 10:41 Not to all the people, but unto witnesses chosen before God,
even to us, who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead.
ACT 10:42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people, and to testify
that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and
dead.
ACT 10:43 To him give all the prophets witness, that through his name
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
ACT 10:44 While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all
them which heard the word.
ACT 10:45 And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished,
as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured
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