| 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 12:26 And if Satan cast out Satan, he is divided against himself;
how shall then his kingdom stand?
MAT 12:27 And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your
children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.
MAT 12:28 But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the
kingdom of God is come unto you.
MAT 12:29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and
spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will
spoil his house.
MAT 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth
not with me scattereth abroad.
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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: and the bat.
DEU 14:19 And every creeping thing that flieth is unclean unto you:
they shall not be eaten.
DEU 14:20 But of all clean fowls ye may eat.
DEU 14:21 Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou shalt
give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or
thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the
LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
DEU 14:22 Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the
field bringeth forth year by year.
DEU 14:23 And thou shalt eat before the LORD thy God, in the place
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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: fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became
fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
NEH 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great
provocations.
NEH 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they
cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the
hand of their enemies.
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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: CH2 28:1 Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he
reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right
in the sight of the LORD, like David his father:
CH2 28:2 For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made
also molten images for Baalim.
CH2 28:3 Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom,
and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the
heathen whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
CH2 28:4 He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places, and
on the hills, and under every green tree.
CH2 28:5 Wherefore the LORD his God delivered him into the hand of the
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