| 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: again thou shewest thyself marvellous upon me.
JOB 10:17 Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine
indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.
JOB 10:18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh
that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me!
JOB 10:19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have
been carried from the womb to the grave.
JOB 10:20 Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may
take comfort a little,
JOB 10:21 Before I go whence I shall not return, even to the land of
darkness and the shadow of death;
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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: pride, he was deposed from his kingly throne, and they took his glory
from him:
DAN 5:21 And he was driven from the sons of men; and his heart was made
like the beasts, and his dwelling was with the wild asses: they fed him
with grass like oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven; till
he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of men, and that he
appointeth over it whomsoever he will.
DAN 5:22 And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled thine heart,
though thou knewest all this;
DAN 5:23 But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven; and
they have brought the vessels of his house before thee, and thou, and
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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: NEH 7:1 Now it came to pass, when the wall was built, and I had set up
the doors, and the porters and the singers and the Levites were
appointed,
NEH 7:2 That I gave my brother Hanani, and Hananiah the ruler of the
palace, charge over Jerusalem: for he was a faithful man, and feared God
above many.
NEH 7:3 And I said unto them, Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened
until the sun be hot; and while they stand by, let them shut the doors,
and bar them: and appoint watches of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, every
one in his watch, and every one to be over against his house.
NEH 7:4 Now the city was large and great: but the people were few
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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: them which have taken strange wives in our cities come at appointed
times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof,
until the fierce wrath of our God for this matter be turned from us.
EZR 10:15 Only Jonathan the son of Asahel and Jahaziah the son of
Tikvah were employed about this matter: and Meshullam and Shabbethai the
Levite helped them.
EZR 10:16 And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the
priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their
fathers, and all of them by their names, were separated, and sat down in
the first day of the tenth month to examine the matter.
EZR 10:17 And they made an end with all the men that had taken strange
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