| 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: MAT 13:1 The same day went Jesus out of the house, and sat by the sea
side.
MAT 13:2 And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that
he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the
shore.
MAT 13:3 And he spake many things unto them in parables, saying,
Behold, a sower went forth to sow;
MAT 13:4 And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the
fowls came and devoured them up:
MAT 13:5 Some fell upon stony places, where they had not much earth:
and forthwith they sprung up, because they had no deepness of earth:
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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: skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth
unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
EXO 22:28 Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse the ruler of thy
people.
EXO 22:29 Thou shalt not delay to offer the first of thy ripe fruits,
and of thy liquors: the firstborn of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.
EXO 22:30 Likewise shalt thou do with thine oxen, and with thy sheep:
seven days it shall be with his dam; on the eighth day thou shalt give
it me.
EXO 22:31 And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any
flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.
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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: ISA 25:1 O Lord, thou art my God; I will exalt thee, I will praise thy
name; for thou hast done wonderful things; thy counsels of old are
faithfulness and truth.
ISA 25:2 For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a
ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.
ISA 25:3 Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of
the terrible nations shall fear thee.
ISA 25:4 For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the
needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat,
when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.
ISA 25:5 Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a
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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 bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the
wilderness.
NUM 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land,
even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities,
even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.
NUM 14:35 I the LORD have said, I will surely do it unto all this evil
congregation, that are gathered together against me: in this wilderness
they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.
NUM 14:36 And the men, which Moses sent to search the land, who
returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by
bringing up a slander upon the land,
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