| 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: harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his
chariots.
SA1 8:13 And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to
be cooks, and to be bakers.
SA1 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your
oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
SA1 8:15 And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your
vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants.
SA1 8:16 And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and
your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work.
SA1 8:17 He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his
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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: the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt
make unto it a crown of gold round about.
EXO 30:4 And two golden rings shalt thou make to it under the crown of
it, by the two corners thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make
it; and they shall be for places for the staves to bear it withal.
EXO 30:5 And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay
them with gold.
EXO 30:6 And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of
the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I
will meet with thee.
EXO 30:7 And Aaron shall burn thereon sweet incense every morning: when
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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: neither ten days, nor twenty days;
NUM 11:20 But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils,
and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the LORD
which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth
out of Egypt?
NUM 11:21 And Moses said, The people, among whom I am, are six hundred
thousand footmen; and thou hast said, I will give them flesh, that they
may eat a whole month.
NUM 11:22 Shall the flocks and the herds be slain for them, to suffice
them? or shall all the fish of the sea be gathered together for them, to
suffice them?
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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: what is that to thee? follow thou me.
JOH 21:23 Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that
disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die;
but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?
JOH 21:24 This is the disciple which testifieth of these things, and
wrote these things: and we know that his testimony is true.
JOH 21:25 And there are also many other things which Jesus did, the
which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
ACT 1:1 The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that
Jesus began both to do and teach,
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