| 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: and afterward I will see his face; peradventure he will accept of me.
GEN 32:21 So went the present over before him: and himself lodged that
night in the company.
GEN 32:22 And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his
two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.
GEN 32:23 And he took them, and sent them over the brook, and sent over
that he had.
GEN 32:24 And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him
until the breaking of the day.
GEN 32:25 And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched
the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of
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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: lieth toward the south west and north west.
ACT 27:13 And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had
obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete.
ACT 27:14 But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind,
called Euroclydon.
ACT 27:15 And when the ship was caught, and could not bear up into the
wind, we let her drive.
ACT 27:16 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda, we
had much work to come by the boat:
ACT 27:17 Which when they had taken up, they used helps, undergirding
the ship; and, fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands, strake
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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: LUK 15:16 And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that
the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
LUK 15:17 And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants
of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
LUK 15:18 I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him,
Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
LUK 15:19 And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of
thy hired servants.
LUK 15:20 And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a
great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell
on his neck, and kissed him.
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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: 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.
NEH 9:28 But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee:
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