| 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: drink no vinegar of wine, or vinegar of strong drink, neither shall he
drink any liquor of grapes, nor eat moist grapes, or dried.
NUM 6:4 All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is
made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.
NUM 6:5 All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor
come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he
separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the
locks of the hair of his head grow.
NUM 6:6 All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall
come at no dead body.
NUM 6:7 He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his
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: all kind of fruits:
ECC 2:6 I made me pools of water, to water therewith the wood that
bringeth forth trees:
ECC 2:7 I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my
house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all
that were in Jerusalem before me:
ECC 2:8 I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure
of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers,
and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of
all sorts.
ECC 2:9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me
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: praise her in the gates. ECC 1:1 The words of the Preacher, the son of
David, king in Jerusalem.
ECC 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all
is vanity.
ECC 1:3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under
the sun?
ECC 1:4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but
the earth abideth for ever.
ECC 1:5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to
his place where he arose.
ECC 1:6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the
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: Israel,
KI1 9:21 Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the
children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did
Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
KI1 9:22 But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no bondmen: but
they were men of war, and his servants, and his princes, and his
captains, and rulers of his chariots, and his horsemen.
KI1 9:23 These were the chief of the officers that were over Solomon's
work, five hundred and fifty, which bare rule over the people that
wrought in the work.
KI1 9:24 But Pharaoh's daughter came up out of the city of David unto
King James Bible |
