| 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: that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my
undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops
of the night.
SON 5:3 I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my
feet; how shall I defile them?
SON 5:4 My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my
bowels were moved for him.
SON 5:5 I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with
myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the
lock.
SON 5:6 I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself,
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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: DEU 33:9 Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen
him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children:
for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
DEU 33:10 They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law:
they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine
altar.
DEU 33:11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands;
smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that
hate him, that they rise not again.
DEU 33:12 And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell
in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he
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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: behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, saith the LORD: but thy life
will I give unto thee for a prey in all places whither thou goest.
JER 46:1 The word of the LORD which came to Jeremiah the prophet
against the Gentiles;
JER 46:2 Against Egypt, against the army of Pharaohnecho king of Egypt,
which was by the river Euphrates in Carchemish, which Nebuchadrezzar
king of Babylon smote in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah
king of Judah.
JER 46:3 Order ye the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.
JER 46:4 Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth
with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
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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: separate place which was behind it, and the galleries thereof on the one
side and on the other side, an hundred cubits, with the inner temple,
and the porches of the court;
EZE 41:16 The door posts, and the narrow windows, and the galleries
round about on their three stories, over against the door, cieled with
wood round about, and from the ground up to the windows, and the windows
were covered;
EZE 41:17 To that above the door, even unto the inner house, and
without, and by all the wall round about within and without, by measure.
EZE 41:18 And it was made with cherubims and palm trees, so that a palm
tree was between a cherub and a cherub; and every cherub had two faces;
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