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: LUK 3:20 Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.
LUK 3:21 Now when all the people were baptized, it came to pass, that
Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,
LUK 3:22 And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove
upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved
Son; in thee I am well pleased.
LUK 3:23 And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being
(as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,
LUK 3:24 Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which
was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of
Joseph,
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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: unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein
shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
DEU 20:12 And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war
against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:
DEU 20:13 And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands,
thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
DEU 20:14 But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all
that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto
thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the LORD
thy God hath given thee.
DEU 20:15 Thus shalt thou do unto all the cities which are very far off
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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: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.
GEN 29:7 And he said, Lo, it is yet high day, neither is it time that
the cattle should be gathered together: water ye the sheep, and go and
feed them.
GEN 29:8 And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone from the well's mouth; then we
water the sheep.
GEN 29:9 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her
father's sheep; for she kept them.
GEN 29:10 And it came to pass, when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of
Laban his mother's brother, and the sheep of Laban his mother's brother,
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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: SA2 23:12 But he stood in the midst of the ground, and defended it, and
slew the Philistines: and the LORD wrought a great victory.
SA2 23:13 And three of the thirty chief went down, and came to David in
the harvest time unto the cave of Adullam: and the troop of the
Philistines pitched in the valley of Rephaim.
SA2 23:14 And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the
Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
SA2 23:15 And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink
of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
SA2 23:16 And the three mighty men brake through the host of the
Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by
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