| 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: only I give thanks, but also all the churches of the Gentiles.
ROM 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my
well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.
ROM 16:6 Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.
ROM 16:7 Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my
fellow-prisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in
Christ before me.
ROM 16:8 Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord.
ROM 16:9 Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved.
ROM 16:10 Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of
Aristobulus' household.
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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: be given him from heaven.
JOH 3:28 Ye yourselves bear me witness, that I said, I am not the
Christ, but that I am sent before him.
JOH 3:29 He that hath the bride is the bridegroom: but the friend of
the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly
because of the bridegroom's voice: this my joy therefore is fulfilled.
JOH 3:30 He must increase, but I must decrease.
JOH 3:31 He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the
earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven
is above all.
JOH 3:32 And what he hath seen and heard, that he testifieth; and no
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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: EZE 28:6 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast set thine
heart as the heart of God;
EZE 28:7 Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the
terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the
beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.
EZE 28:8 They shall bring thee down to the pit, and thou shalt die the
deaths of them that are slain in the midst of the seas.
EZE 28:9 Wilt thou yet say before him that slayeth thee, I am God? but
thou shalt be a man, and no God, in the hand of him that slayeth thee.
EZE 28:10 Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of
strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
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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: read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the
little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
JOS 9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side
Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the
great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
JOS 9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua
and with Israel, with one accord.
JOS 9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done
unto Jericho and to Ai,
JOS 9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been
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