| 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: in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:
LEV 14:7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the
leprosy seven times, and shall pronounce him clean, and shall let the
living bird loose into the open field.
LEV 14:8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes, and
shave off all his hair, and wash himself in water, that he may be clean:
and after that he shall come into the camp, and shall tarry abroad out
of his tent seven days.
LEV 14:9 But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all
his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair
he shall shave off: and he shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash
King James Bible |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from King James Bible: seen no good: do not all go to one place?
ECC 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is
not filled.
ECC 6:8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor,
that knoweth to walk before the living?
ECC 6:9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the
desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
ECC 6:10 That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it
is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
ECC 6:11 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man
the better?
King James Bible |
| 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: Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto
them, saith the LORD:
JER 31:33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the
house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in
their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God,
and they shall be my people.
JER 31:34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and
every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know
me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD:
for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no
more.
King James Bible |
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: upon the six steps. There was not the like made in any kingdom.
CH2 9:20 And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and
all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold:
none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of
Solomon.
CH2 9:21 For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of
Huram: every three years once came the ships of Tarshish bringing gold,
and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.
CH2 9:22 And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches
and wisdom.
CH2 9:23 And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon,
King James Bible |
