| 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: GEN 42:5 And the sons of Israel came to buy corn among those that came:
for the famine was in the land of Canaan.
GEN 42:6 And Joseph was the governor over the land, and he it was that
sold to all the people of the land: and Joseph's brethren came, and
bowed down themselves before him with their faces to the earth.
GEN 42:7 And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made
himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto
them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy
food.
GEN 42:8 And Joseph knew his brethren, but they knew not him.
GEN 42:9 And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and
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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: GEN 47:29 And the time drew nigh that Israel must die: and he called
his son Joseph, and said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy
sight, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and deal kindly and
truly with me; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt:
GEN 47:30 But I will lie with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me out
of Egypt, and bury me in their buryingplace. And he said, I will do as
thou hast said.
GEN 47:31 And he said, Swear unto me. And he sware unto him. And Israel
bowed himself upon the bed's head.
GEN 48:1 And it came to pass after these things, that one told Joseph,
Behold, thy father is sick: and he took with him his two sons, Manasseh
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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: JOH 12:16 These things understood not his disciples at the first: but
when Jesus was glorified, then remembered they that these things were
written of him, and that they had done these things unto him.
JOH 12:17 The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus
out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
JOH 12:18 For this cause the people also met him, for that they heard
that he had done this miracle.
JOH 12:19 The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, Perceive ye
how ye prevail nothing? behold, the world is gone after him.
JOH 12:20 And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to
worship at the feast:
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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: whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye
afraid of their revilings.
ISA 51:8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment, and the worm
shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my
salvation from generation to generation.
ISA 51:9 Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the LORD; awake, as in
the ancient days, in the generations of old. Art thou not it that hath
cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon?
ISA 51:10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the
great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed
to pass over?
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