| 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: PRO 7:7 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the youths,
a young man void of understanding,
PRO 7:8 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way
to her house,
PRO 7:9 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
PRO 7:10 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an
harlot, and subtil of heart.
PRO 7:11 (She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
PRO 7:12 Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at
every corner.)
PRO 7:13 So she caught him, and kissed him, and with an impudent face
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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: call heresy, so worship I the God of my fathers, believing all things
which are written in the law and in the prophets:
ACT 24:15 And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow,
that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and
unjust.
ACT 24:16 And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience
void to offence toward God, and toward men.
ACT 24:17 Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and
offerings.
ACT 24:18 Whereupon certain Jews from Asia found me purified in the
temple, neither with multitude, nor with tumult.
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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: shall be as a dream of a night vision.
ISA 29:8 It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold,
he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty
man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he
is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the
nations be, that fight against mount Zion.
ISA 29:9 Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are
drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink.
ISA 29:10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep
sleep, and hath closed your eyes: the prophets and your rulers, the
seers hath he covered.
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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: again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
JOB 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
JOB 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
JOB 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
JOB 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little,
JOB 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death;
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