| 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: MAR 12:29 And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is,
Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:
MAR 12:30 And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and
with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength:
this is the first commandment.
MAR 12:31 And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy
neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than
these.
MAR 12:32 And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said
the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:
MAR 12:33 And to love him with all the heart, and with all the
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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: JOB 13:28 And he, as a rotten thing, consumeth, as a garment that is
moth eaten.
JOB 14:1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days and full of
trouble.
JOB 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also
as a shadow, and continueth not.
JOB 14:3 And doth thou open thine eyes upon such an one, and bringest
me into judgment with thee?
JOB 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
JOB 14:5 Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are
with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;
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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: day for Sodom, than for that city.
LUK 10:13 Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the
mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in
you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and
ashes.
LUK 10:14 But it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the
judgment, than for you.
LUK 10:15 And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted to heaven, shalt be
thrust down to hell.
LUK 10:16 He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you
despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.
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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: KI1 7:30 And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass:
and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were
undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.
KI1 7:31 And the mouth of it within the chapiter and above was a cubit:
but the mouth thereof was round after the work of the base, a cubit and
an half: and also upon the mouth of it were gravings with their borders,
foursquare, not round.
KI1 7:32 And under the borders were four wheels; and the axletrees of
the wheels were joined to the base: and the height of a wheel was a
cubit and half a cubit.
KI1 7:33 And the work of the wheels was like the work of a chariot
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