| 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: it maketh no matter to me: God accepteth no man's person:) for they who
seemed to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me:
GAL 2:7 But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the
uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision
was unto Peter;
GAL 2:8 (For he that wrought effectually in Peter to the apostleship of
the circumcision, the same was mighty in me toward the Gentiles:)
GAL 2:9 And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars,
perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas
the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and
they unto the circumcision.
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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: angel of the LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
SA2 24:17 And David spake unto the LORD when he saw the angel that
smote the people, and said, Lo, I have sinned, and I have done wickedly:
but these sheep, what have they done? let thine hand, I pray thee, be
against me, and against my father's house.
SA2 24:18 And Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up,
rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Araunah the
Jebusite.
SA2 24:19 And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the
LORD commanded.
SA2 24:20 And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming
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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: behold his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbath of the
children of Ammon? nine cubits was the length thereof, and four cubits
the breadth of it, after the cubit of a man.
DEU 3:12 And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer,
which is by the river Arnon, and half mount Gilead, and the cities
thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites.
DEU 3:13 And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of
Og, gave I unto the half tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob,
with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants.
DEU 3:14 Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto
the coasts of Geshuri and Maachathi; and called them after his own name,
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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: the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
ECC 1:8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is
not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
ECC 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that
which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing
under the sun.
ECC 1:10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new?
it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
ECC 1:11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there
be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come
after.
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