| 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: JOH 15:18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it
hated you.
JOH 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but
because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world,
therefore the world hateth you.
JOH 15:20 Remember the word that I said unto you, The servant is not
greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they will also
persecute you; if they have kept my saying, they will keep yours also.
JOH 15:21 But all these things will they do unto you for my name's
sake, because they know not him that sent me.
JOH 15:22 If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin:
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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: a wife unto my son Isaac.
GEN 24:5 And the servant said unto him, Peradventure the woman will not
be willing to follow me unto this land: must I needs bring thy son again
unto the land from whence thou camest?
GEN 24:6 And Abraham said unto him, Beware thou that thou bring not my
son thither again.
GEN 24:7 The LORD God of heaven, which took me from my father's house,
and from the land of my kindred, and which spake unto me, and that sware
unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he shall send his
angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife unto my son from thence.
GEN 24:8 And if the woman will not be willing to follow thee, then thou
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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: on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on
the hearth.
JER 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
JER 36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
intercession to the king that he would not burn the roll: but he would
not hear them.
JER 36:26 But the king commanded Jerahmeel the son of Hammelech, and
Seraiah the son of Azriel, and Shelemiah the son of Abdeel, to take
Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet: but the LORD hid them.
JER 36:27 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the
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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: GEN 4:18 And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and
Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.
GEN 4:19 And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was
Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
GEN 4:20 And Adah bare Jabal: he was the father of such as dwell in
tents, and of such as have cattle.
GEN 4:21 And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all
such as handle the harp and organ.
GEN 4:22 And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructer of every
artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah.
GEN 4:23 And Lamech said unto his wives, Adah and Zillah, Hear my
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