| 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: by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall
he take away.
LEV 3:16 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food
of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the
LORD's.
LEV 3:17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations
throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.
LEV 4:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
LEV 4:2 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin
through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning
things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
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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: king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it.
DAN 1:2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with
part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land
of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the
treasure house of his god.
DAN 1:3 And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs,
that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the
king's seed, and of the princes;
DAN 1:4 Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful
in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and
such as had ability in them to stand in the king's palace, and whom they
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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: Jews hoped to have power over them, (though it was turned to the
contrary, that the Jews had rule over them that hated them;)
EST 9:2 The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities
throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such
as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of
them fell upon all people.
EST 9:3 And all the rulers of the provinces, and the lieutenants, and
the deputies, and officers of the king, helped the Jews; because the
fear of Mordecai fell upon them.
EST 9:4 For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and his fame went
out throughout all the provinces: for this man Mordecai waxed greater
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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: and with the king at Jerusalem.
CH2 9:26 And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the
land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.
CH2 9:27 And the king made silver in Jerusalem as stones, and cedar
trees made he as the sycomore trees that are in the low plains in
abundance.
CH2 9:28 And they brought unto Solomon horses out of Egypt, and out of
all lands.
CH2 9:29 Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they
not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of
Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against
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