| 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: SA1 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so
faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's son in
law, and goeth at thy bidding, and is honourable in thine house?
SA1 22:15 Did I then begin to enquire of God for him? be it far from
me: let not the king impute any thing unto his servant, nor to all the
house of my father: for thy servant knew nothing of all this, less or
more.
SA1 22:16 And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou,
and all thy father's house.
SA1 22:17 And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him,
Turn, and slay the priests of the LORD: because their hand also is with
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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: CO2 11:23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more;
in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more
frequent, in deaths oft.
CO2 11:24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.
CO2 11:25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I
suffered shipwreck, a night and a day I have been in the deep;
CO2 11:26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of
robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in
perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea,
in perils among false brethren;
CO2 11:27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger
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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: heart.
PSA 73:2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well
nigh slipped.
PSA 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of
the wicked.
PSA 73:4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is
firm.
PSA 73:5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued
like other men.
PSA 73:6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence
covereth them as a garment.
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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: told I any man what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem:
neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.
NEH 2:13 And I went out by night by the gate of the valley, even before
the dragon well, and to the dung port, and viewed the walls of
Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed
with fire.
NEH 2:14 Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king's
pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.
NEH 2:15 Then went I up in the night by the brook, and viewed the wall,
and turned back, and entered by the gate of the valley, and so returned.
NEH 2:16 And the rulers knew not whither I went, or what I did; neither
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