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: CO1 7:4 The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and
likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.
CO1 7:5 Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a
time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come
together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.
CO1 7:6 But I speak this by permission, and not of commandment.
CO1 7:7 For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man
hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after
that.
CO1 7:8 I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, it is good for
them if they abide even as I.
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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: NUM 7:89 And when Moses was gone into the tabernacle of the
congregation to speak with him, then he heard the voice of one speaking
unto him from off the mercy seat that was upon the ark of testimony,
from between the two cherubims: and he spake unto him.
NUM 8:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 8:2 Speak unto Aaron and say unto him, When thou lightest the
lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
NUM 8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the
candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
NUM 8:4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto
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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: when great famine was throughout all the land;
LUK 4:26 But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta, a
city of Sidon, unto a woman that was a widow.
LUK 4:27 And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the
prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.
LUK 4:28 And all they in the synagogue, when they heard these things,
were filled with wrath,
LUK 4:29 And rose up, and thrust him out of the city, and led him unto
the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might cast
him down headlong.
LUK 4:30 But he passing through the midst of them went his way,
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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: ACT 1:13 And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room,
where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and
Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon
Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.
ACT 1:14 These all continued with one accord in prayer and
supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his
brethren.
ACT 1:15 And in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the
disciples, and said, (the number of names together were about an hundred
and twenty,)
ACT 1:16 Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been
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