| 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: shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut
themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:
JER 16:7 Neither shall men tear themselves for them in mourning, to
comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of
consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
JER 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink.
JER 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days,
the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
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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: the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress
the law?
ROM 2:28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that
circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:
ROM 2:29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is
that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is
not of men, but of God.
ROM 3:1 What advantage then hath the Jew? or what profit is there of
circumcision?
ROM 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed
the oracles of God.
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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: if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel.
EZE 10:11 When they went, they went upon their four sides; they turned
not as they went, but to the place whither the head looked they followed
it; they turned not as they went.
EZE 10:12 And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and
their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the
wheels that they four had.
EZE 10:13 As for the wheels, it was cried unto them in my hearing, O
wheel.
EZE 10:14 And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of
a cherub, and the second face was the face of a man, and the third the
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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: both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the
things of the world, how she may please her husband.
CO1 7:35 And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a
snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend
upon the Lord without distraction.
CO1 7:36 But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward
his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let
him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.
CO1 7:37 Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no
necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his
heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.
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