| 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: Cilicia, a citizen of no mean city: and, I beseech thee, suffer me to
speak unto the people.
ACT 21:40 And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs,
and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a
great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,
ACT 22:1 Men, brethren, and fathers, hear ye my defence which I make
now unto you.
ACT 22:2 (And when they heard that he spake in the Hebrew tongue to
them, they kept the more silence: and he saith,)
ACT 22:3 I am verily a man which am a Jew, born in Tarsus, a city in
Cilicia, yet brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, and taught
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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: DEU 14:2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the
LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all
the nations that are upon the earth.
DEU 14:3 Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.
DEU 14:4 These are the beasts which ye shall eat: the ox, the sheep,
and the goat,
DEU 14:5 The hart, and the roebuck, and the fallow deer, and the wild
goat, and the pygarg, and the wild ox, and the chamois.
DEU 14:6 And every beast that parteth the hoof, and cleaveth the cleft
into two claws, and cheweth the cud among the beasts, that ye shall eat.
DEU 14:7 Nevertheless these ye shall not eat of them that chew the cud,
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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: and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we
certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
GEN 43:8 And Judah said unto Israel his father, Send the lad with me,
and we will arise and go; that we may live, and not die, both we, and
thou, and also our little ones.
GEN 43:9 I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him:
if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear
the blame for ever:
GEN 43:10 For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this
second time.
GEN 43:11 And their father Israel said unto them, If it must be so now,
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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: usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth
curse me.
JER 15:11 The LORD said, Verily it shall be well with thy remnant;
verily I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well in the time of evil
and in the time of affliction.
JER 15:12 Shall iron break the northern iron and the steel?
JER 15:13 Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil
without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.
JER 15:14 And I will make thee to pass with thine enemies into a land
which thou knowest not: for a fire is kindled in mine anger, which shall
burn upon you.
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