| 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: our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
JER 9:19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we
spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
because our dwellings have cast us out.
JER 9:20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear
receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and
every one her neighbour lamentation.
JER 9:21 For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our
palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from
the streets.
JER 9:22 Speak, Thus saith the LORD, Even the carcases of men shall
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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: CO1 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
CO1 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living
soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
CO1 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which
is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
CO1 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the
Lord from heaven.
CO1 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as
is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
CO1 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also
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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: ISA 59:10 We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we
had no eyes: we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate
places as dead men.
ISA 59:11 We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look
for judgment, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from
us.
ISA 59:12 For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our
sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for
our iniquities, we know them;
ISA 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing
away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and
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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: power, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; as ye know what
manner of men we were among you for your sake.
TH1 1:6 And ye became followers of us, and of the Lord, having received
the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost.
TH1 1:7 So that ye were ensamples to all that believe in Macedonia and
Achaia.
TH1 1:8 For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in
Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is
spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
TH1 1:9 For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we
had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living
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