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: ROM 3:14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:
ROM 3:15 Their feet are swift to shed blood:
ROM 3:16 Destruction and misery are in their ways:
ROM 3:17 And the way of peace have they not known:
ROM 3:18 There is no fear of God before their eyes.
ROM 3:19 Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to
them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the
world may become guilty before God.
ROM 3:20 Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.
ROM 3:21 But now the righteousness of God without the law is
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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 men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until
your beards be grown, and then return.
SA2 10:6 And when the children of Ammon saw that they stank before
David, the children of Ammon sent and hired the Syrians of Bethrehob and
the Syrians of Zoba, twenty thousand footmen, and of king Maacah a
thousand men, and of Ishtob twelve thousand men.
SA2 10:7 And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of
the mighty men.
SA2 10:8 And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in
array at the entering in of the gate: and the Syrians of Zoba, and of
Rehob, and Ishtob, and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.
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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: LEV 22:2 Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate
themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they
profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am
the LORD.
LEV 22:3 Say unto them, Whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations, that goeth unto the holy things, which the children of
Israel hallow unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul
shall be cut off from my presence: I am the LORD.
LEV 22:4 What man soever of the seed of Aaron is a leper, or hath a
running issue; he shall not eat of the holy things, until he be clean.
And whoso toucheth any thing that is unclean by the dead, or a man whose
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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: lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.
NUM 8:3 And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof over against the
candlestick, as the LORD commanded Moses.
NUM 8:4 And this work of the candlestick was of beaten gold, unto the
shaft thereof, unto the flowers thereof, was beaten work: according unto
the pattern which the LORD had shewed Moses, so he made the candlestick.
NUM 8:5 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
NUM 8:6 Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse
them.
NUM 8:7 And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle
water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and
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