| 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: behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea.
DAN 7:3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from
another.
DAN 7:4 The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till
the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and
made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
DAN 7:5 And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it
raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it
between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much
flesh.
DAN 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had
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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: into a far country.
MAR 12:2 And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he
might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.
MAR 12:3 And they caught him, and beat him, and sent him away empty.
MAR 12:4 And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they
cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully
handled.
MAR 12:5 And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many
others; beating some, and killing some.
MAR 12:6 Having yet therefore one son, his wellbeloved, he sent him
also last unto them, saying, They will reverence my son.
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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: keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded
themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.
LAM 2:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver
is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my
people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of
the city.
LAM 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they
swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was
poured out into their mothers' bosom.
LAM 2:13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall
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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 ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
GEN 7:2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the
male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male
and his female.
GEN 7:3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to
keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
GEN 7:4 For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth
forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made
will I destroy from off the face of the earth.
GEN 7:5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him.
GEN 7:6 And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was
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