| 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: divide them into corners: so they possessed the land of Sihon, and the
land of the king of Heshbon, and the land of Og king of Bashan.
NEH 9:23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven,
and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised
to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.
NEH 9:24 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou
subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and
gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the
land, that they might do with them as they would.
NEH 9:25 And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed
houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and
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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: these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you:
LEV 18:25 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity
thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.
LEV 18:26 Ye shall therefore keep my statutes and my judgments, and
shall not commit any of these abominations; neither any of your own
nation, nor any stranger that sojourneth among you:
LEV 18:27 (For all these abominations have the men of the land done,
which were before you, and the land is defiled;)
LEV 18:28 That the land spue not you out also, when ye defile it, as it
spued out the nations that were before you.
LEV 18:29 For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even
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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: that ye are come so soon to day?
EXO 2:19 And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the
shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
EXO 2:20 And he said unto his daughters, And where is he? why is it
that ye have left the man? call him, that he may eat bread.
EXO 2:21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man: and he gave Moses
Zipporah his daughter.
EXO 2:22 And she bare him a son, and he called his name Gershom: for he
said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.
EXO 2:23 And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt
died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and
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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: journey.
JON 3:4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he
cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
JON 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast,
and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of
them.
JON 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his
throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth,
and sat in ashes.
JON 3:7 And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh
by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor
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