| 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: light, but have none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:
JOB 3:10 Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid
sorrow from mine eyes.
JOB 3:11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost
when I came out of the belly?
JOB 3:12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should
suck?
JOB 3:13 For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have
slept: then had I been at rest,
JOB 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate
places for themselves;
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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: LUK 22:33 And he said unto him, Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both
into prison, and to death.
LUK 22:34 And he said, I tell thee, Peter, the cock shall not crow this
day, before that thou shalt thrice deny that thou knowest me.
LUK 22:35 And he said unto them, When I sent you without purse, and
scrip, and shoes, lacked ye any thing? And they said, Nothing.
LUK 22:36 Then said he unto them, But now, he that hath a purse, let
him take it, and likewise his scrip: and he that hath no sword, let him
sell his garment, and buy one.
LUK 22:37 For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be
accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the
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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: now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields
and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of
hundreds;
SA1 22:8 That all of you have conspired against me, and there is none
that sheweth me that my son hath made a league with the son of Jesse,
and there is none of you that is sorry for me, or sheweth unto me that
my son hath stirred up my servant against me, to lie in wait, as at this
day?
SA1 22:9 Then answered Doeg the Edomite, which was set over the
servants of Saul, and said, I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to
Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
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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: of Elishama the scribe's chamber. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the
king, and in the ears of all the princes which stood beside the king.
JER 36:22 Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and
there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
JER 36:23 And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four
leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was
on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on
the hearth.
JER 36:24 Yet they were not afraid, nor rent their garments, neither
the king, nor any of his servants that heard all these words.
JER 36:25 Nevertheless Elnathan and Delaiah and Gemariah had made
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