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: MAR 11:13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if
haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found
nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.
MAR 11:14 And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee
hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.
MAR 11:15 And they come to Jerusalem: and Jesus went into the temple,
and began to cast out them that sold and bought in the temple, and
overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that
sold doves;
MAR 11:16 And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel
through the temple.
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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: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
EZR 8:25 And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the
vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and
his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had
offered:
EZR 8:26 I even weighed unto their hand six hundred and fifty talents
of silver, and silver vessels an hundred talents, and of gold an hundred
talents;
EZR 8:27 Also twenty basons of gold, of a thousand drams; and two
vessels of fine copper, precious as gold.
EZR 8:28 And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the LORD; the vessels
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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: saddled him.
KI1 13:28 And he went and found his carcase cast in the way, and the
ass and the lion standing by the carcase: the lion had not eaten the
carcase, nor torn the ass.
KI1 13:29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God, and
laid it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to
the city, to mourn and to bury him.
KI1 13:30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave; and they mourned
over him, saying, Alas, my brother!
KI1 13:31 And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake
to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre
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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: lips.
JOB 13:7 Will ye speak wickedly for God? and talk deceitfully for him?
JOB 13:8 Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?
JOB 13:9 Is it good that he should search you out? or as one man
mocketh another, do ye so mock him?
JOB 13:10 He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.
JOB 13:11 Shall not his excellency make you afraid? and his dread fall
upon you?
JOB 13:12 Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies
of clay.
JOB 13:13 Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come
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