| 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: pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days
of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the
years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
GEN 47:10 And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from before Pharaoh.
GEN 47:11 And Joseph placed his father and his brethren, and gave them
a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land
of Rameses, as Pharaoh had commanded.
GEN 47:12 And Joseph nourished his father, and his brethren, and all
his father's household, with bread, according to their families.
GEN 47:13 And there was no bread in all the land; for the famine was
very sore, so that the land of Egypt and all the land of Canaan fainted
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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: affliction and distress by your faith:
TH1 3:8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
TH1 3:9 For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the
joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;
TH1 3:10 Night and day praying exceedingly that we might see your face,
and might perfect that which is lacking in your faith?
TH1 3:11 Now God himself and our Father, and our Lord Jesus Christ,
direct our way unto you.
TH1 3:12 And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one
toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:
TH1 3:13 To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness
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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: fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became
fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
NEH 9:26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee,
and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which
testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great
provocations.
NEH 9:27 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their
enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they
cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy
manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the
hand of their enemies.
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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: MAL 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein
have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.
MAL 3:9 Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this
whole nation.
MAL 3:10 Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be
meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts,
if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a
blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.
MAL 3:11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall
not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her
fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
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