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: with a loud voice said, What have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou Son of
God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.
LUK 8:29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the
man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains
and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into
the wilderness.)
LUK 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said,
Legion: because many devils were entered into him.
LUK 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out
into the deep.
LUK 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the
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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: KI1 1:21 Otherwise it shall come to pass, when my lord the king shall
sleep with his fathers, that I and my son Solomon shall be counted
offenders.
KI1 1:22 And, lo, while she yet talked with the king, Nathan the
prophet also came in.
KI1 1:23 And they told the king, saying, Behold Nathan the prophet. And
when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king
with his face to the ground.
KI1 1:24 And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah
shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?
KI1 1:25 For he is gone down this day, and hath slain oxen and fat
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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: names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
NUM 1:37 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of
Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.
NUM 1:38 Of the children of Dan, by their generations, after their
families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the
names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth
to war;
NUM 1:39 Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Dan,
were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.
NUM 1:40 Of the children of Asher, by their generations, after their
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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: Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea:
for they were fishers.
MAT 4:19 And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers
of men.
MAT 4:20 And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.
MAT 4:21 And going on from thence, he saw other two brethren, James the
son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their
father, mending their nets; and he called them.
MAT 4:22 And they immediately left the ship and their father, and
followed him.
MAT 4:23 And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their
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