| 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: accusation of such things as I supposed:
ACT 25:19 But had certain questions against him of their own
superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be
alive.
ACT 25:20 And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked
him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these
matters.
ACT 25:21 But when Paul had appealed to be reserved unto the hearing of
Augustus, I commanded him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.
ACT 25:22 Then Agrippa said unto Festus, I would also hear the man
myself. To morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.
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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: wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.
LUK 2:13 And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the
heavenly host praising God, and saying,
LUK 2:14 Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward men.
LUK 2:15 And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them
into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto
Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath
made known unto us.
LUK 2:16 And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the
babe lying in a manger.
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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: that I have spoken unto thee against Israel, and against Judah, and
against all the nations, from the day I spake unto thee, from the days
of Josiah, even unto this day.
JER 36:3 It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which
I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil
way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.
JER 36:4 Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch
wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the LORD, which he had
spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
JER 36:5 And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot
go into the house of the LORD:
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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: two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.
JER 39:5 But the Chaldeans' army pursued after them, and overtook
Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they
brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land
of Hamath, where he gave judgment upon him.
JER 39:6 Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah
before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
JER 39:7 Moreover he put out Zedekiah's eyes, and bound him with
chains, to carry him to Babylon.
JER 39:8 And the Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of
the people, with fire, and brake down the walls of Jerusalem.
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