| 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: granted thee: and what is thy request? and it shall be performed, even
to the half of the kingdom.
EST 7:3 Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour
in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me
at my petition, and my people at my request:
EST 7:4 For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain,
and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had
held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's
damage.
EST 7:5 Then the king Ahasuerus answered and said unto Esther the
queen, Who is he, and where is he, that durst presume in his heart to do
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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: EXO 14:16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thine hand over the
sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go on dry ground
through the midst of the sea.
EXO 14:17 And I, behold, I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians, and
they shall follow them: and I will get me honour upon Pharaoh, and upon
all his host, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
EXO 14:18 And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have
gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.
EXO 14:19 And the angel of God, which went before the camp of Israel,
removed and went behind them; and the pillar of the cloud went from
before their face, and stood behind them:
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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: hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:
EXO 38:10 Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty;
the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.
EXO 38:11 And for the north side the hangings were an hundred cubits,
their pillars were twenty, and their sockets of brass twenty; the hooks
of the pillars and their fillets of silver.
EXO 38:12 And for the west side were hangings of fifty cubits, their
pillars ten, and their sockets ten; the hooks of the pillars and their
fillets of silver.
EXO 38:13 And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.
EXO 38:14 The hangings of the one side of the gate were fifteen cubits;
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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 were pure, and killed the passover for all the children of the
captivity, and for their brethren the priests, and for themselves.
EZR 6:21 And the children of Israel, which were come again out of
captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the
filthiness of the heathen of the land, to seek the LORD God of Israel,
did eat,
EZR 6:22 And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy:
for the LORD had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of
Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hands in the work of the house of
God, the God of Israel.
EZR 7:1 Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of
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