| 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: princes and his servants; the power of Persia and Media, the nobles and
princes of the provinces, being before him:
EST 1:4 When he shewed the riches of his glorious kingdom and the
honour of his excellent majesty many days, even an hundred and fourscore
days.
EST 1:5 And when these days were expired, the king made a feast unto
all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great
and small, seven days, in the court of the garden of the king's palace;
EST 1:6 Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with
cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble:
the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, 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: they were very wroth,
NEH 4:8 And conspired all of them together to come and to fight against
Jerusalem, and to hinder it.
NEH 4:9 Nevertheless we made our prayer unto our God, and set a watch
against them day and night, because of them.
NEH 4:10 And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is
decayed, and there is much rubbish; so that we are not able to build the
wall.
NEH 4:11 And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see,
till we come in the midst among them, and slay them, and cause the work
to cease.
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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: are therein, the seas, and all that is therein, and thou preservest them
all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee.
NEH 9:7 Thou art the LORD the God, who didst choose Abram, and
broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name
of Abraham;
NEH 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a
covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the
Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to
give it, I say, to his seed, and hast performed thy words; for thou art
righteous:
NEH 9:9 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, 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: EZE 45:4 The holy portion of the land shall be for the priests the
ministers of the sanctuary, which shall come near to minister unto the
LORD: and it shall be a place for their houses, and an holy place for
the sanctuary.
EZE 45:5 And the five and twenty thousand of length, and the ten
thousand of breadth shall also the Levites, the ministers of the house,
have for themselves, for a possession for twenty chambers.
EZE 45:6 And ye shall appoint the possession of the city five thousand
broad, and five and twenty thousand long, over against the oblation of
the holy portion: it shall be for the whole house of Israel.
EZE 45:7 And a portion shall be for the prince on the one side and on
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