| 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: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains:
husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for
he loved husbandry.
CH2 26:11 Moreover Uzziah had an host of fighting men, that went out to
war by bands, according to the number of their account by the hand of
Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the hand of Hananiah, one
of the king's captains.
CH2 26:12 The whole number of the chief of the fathers of the mighty
men of valour were two thousand and six hundred.
CH2 26:13 And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and
seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to
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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: then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move
a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.
DEU 24:1 When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to
pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some
uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and
give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.
DEU 24:2 And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be
another man's wife.
DEU 24:3 And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of
divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his
house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;
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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: ROM 7:5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were
by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
ROM 7:6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein
we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the
oldness of the letter.
ROM 7:7 What shall we say then? Is the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had
not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law
had said, Thou shalt not covet.
ROM 7:8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all
manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
ROM 7:9 For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment
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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: JER 8:5 Why then is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a
perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return.
JER 8:6 I hearkened and heard, but they spake not aright: no man
repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one
turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
JER 8:7 Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and
the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their
coming; but my people know not the judgment of the LORD.
JER 8:8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us?
Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
JER 8:9 The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they
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