| 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: within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.
KI1 6:17 And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits
long.
KI1 6:18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with knops and
open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.
KI1 6:19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there
the ark of the covenant of the LORD.
KI1 6:20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length,
and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof:
and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of
cedar.
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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: MAT 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are
like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but
are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
MAT 23:28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but
within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
MAT 23:29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye
build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the
righteous,
MAT 23:30 And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would
not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
MAT 23:31 Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the
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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: JOH 12:46 I am come a light into the world, that whosoever believeth on
me should not abide in darkness.
JOH 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him
not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
JOH 12:48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one
that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him
in the last day.
JOH 12:49 For I have not spoken of myself; but the Father which sent
me, he gave me a commandment, what I should say, and what I should
speak.
JOH 12:50 And I know that his commandment is life everlasting:
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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: the womb:
GEN 49:26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the
blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting
hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head
of him that was separate from his brethren.
GEN 49:27 Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall
devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.
GEN 49:28 All these are the twelve tribes of Israel: and this is it
that their father spake unto them, and blessed them; every one according
to his blessing he blessed them.
GEN 49:29 And he charged them, and said unto them, I am to be gathered
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