| 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: ISA 7:21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall
nourish a young cow, and two sheep;
ISA 7:22 And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they
shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat
that is left in the land.
ISA 7:23 And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall
be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings, it
shall even be for briers and thorns.
ISA 7:24 With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all
the land shall become briers and thorns.
ISA 7:25 And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there
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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: EZR 10:36 Vaniah, Meremoth, Eliashib,
EZR 10:37 Mattaniah, Mattenai, and Jaasau,
EZR 10:38 And Bani, and Binnui, Shimei,
EZR 10:39 And Shelemiah, and Nathan, and Adaiah,
EZR 10:40 Machnadebai, Shashai, Sharai,
EZR 10:41 Azareel, and Shelemiah, Shemariah,
EZR 10:42 Shallum, Amariah, and Joseph.
EZR 10:43 Of the sons of Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau,
and Joel, Benaiah.
EZR 10:44 All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives
by whom they had children. NEH 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of
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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: the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of
Eliashib.
NEH 12:24 And the chief of the Levites: Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and
Jeshua the son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to
praise and to give thanks, according to the commandment of David the man
of God, ward over against ward.
NEH 12:25 Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub,
were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.
NEH 12:26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son
of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the
priest, the scribe.
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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: day's decree, and let Haman's ten sons be hanged upon the gallows.
EST 9:14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was
given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
EST 9:15 For the Jews that were in Shushan gathered themselves together
on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men
at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
EST 9:16 But the other Jews that were in the king's provinces gathered
themselves together, and stood for their lives, and had rest from their
enemies, and slew of their foes seventy and five thousand, but they laid
not their hands on the prey,
EST 9:17 On the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth
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