| 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: discovered a certain creek with a shore, into the which they were
minded, if it were possible, to thrust in the ship.
ACT 27:40 And when they had taken up the anchors, they committed
themselves unto the sea, and loosed the rudder bands, and hoised up the
mainsail to the wind, and made toward shore.
ACT 27:41 And falling into a place where two seas met, they ran the
ship aground; and the forepart stuck fast, and remained unmoveable, but
the hinder part was broken with the violence of the waves.
ACT 27:42 And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any
of them should swim out, and escape.
ACT 27:43 But the centurion, willing to save Paul, kept them from their
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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: strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah,
rejoiced.
CH2 30:26 So there was great joy in Jerusalem: for since the time of
Solomon the son of David king of Israel there was not the like in
Jerusalem.
CH2 30:27 Then the priests the Levites arose and blessed the people:
and their voice was heard, and their prayer came up to his holy dwelling
place, even unto heaven.
CH2 31:1 Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present
went out to the cities of Judah, and brake the images in pieces, and cut
down the groves, and threw down the high places and the altars out of
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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: brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.
SON 8:6 Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:
for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals
thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
SON 8:7 Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown
it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it
would utterly be contemned.
SON 8:8 We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we
do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
SON 8:9 If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver:
and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.
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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: comfort them for the dead; neither shall men give them the cup of
consolation to drink for their father or for their mother.
JER 16:8 Thou shalt not also go into the house of feasting, to sit with
them to eat and to drink.
JER 16:9 For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I
will cause to cease out of this place in your eyes, and in your days,
the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the
bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.
JER 16:10 And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people
all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD
pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or
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