| 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: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
LAM 1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
LAM 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
LAM 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.
LAM 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
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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: EZE 41:22 The altar of wood was three cubits high, and the length
thereof two cubits; and the corners thereof, and the length thereof, and
the walls thereof, were of wood: and he said unto me, This is the table
that is before the LORD.
EZE 41:23 And the temple and the sanctuary had two doors.
EZE 41:24 And the doors had two leaves apiece, two turning leaves; two
leaves for the one door, and two leaves for the other door.
EZE 41:25 And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple,
cherubims and palm trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there
were thick planks upon the face of the porch without.
EZE 41:26 And there were narrow windows and palm trees on the one side
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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: EXO 16:14 And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face
of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar
frost on the ground.
EXO 16:15 And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to
another, It is manna: for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto
them, This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat.
EXO 16:16 This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it
every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to
the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his
tents.
EXO 16:17 And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more,
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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: that speaketh froward things;
PRO 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of
darkness;
PRO 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the frowardness of the
wicked;
PRO 2:15 Whose ways are crooked, and they froward in their paths:
PRO 2:16 To deliver thee from the strange woman, even from the stranger
which flattereth with her words;
PRO 2:17 Which forsaketh the guide of her youth, and forgetteth the
covenant of her God.
PRO 2:18 For her house inclineth unto death, and her paths unto the
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