Today's Bibliomancy for Rudi Bakhtiar

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:

that were with him, and smote the Rephaims in Ashteroth Karnaim, and the Zuzims in Ham, and the Emins in Shaveh Kiriathaim,

GEN 14:6 And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto Elparan, which is by the wilderness.

GEN 14:7 And they returned, and came to Enmishpat, which is Kadesh, and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazezontamar.

GEN 14:8 And there went out the king of Sodom, and the king of Gomorrah, and the king of Admah, and the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar;) and they joined battle with them in the vale of Siddim;

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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:

over me.

JON 2:4 Then I said, I am cast out of thy sight; yet I will look again toward thy holy temple.

JON 2:5 The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.

JON 2:6 I went down to the bottoms of the mountains; the earth with her bars was about me for ever: yet hast thou brought up my life from corruption, O LORD my God.

JON 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

JON 2:8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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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:

PSA 139:13 For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

PSA 139:14 I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

PSA 139:15 My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

PSA 139:16 Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

PSA 139:17 How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

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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:

places for themselves;

JOB 3:15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

JOB 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

JOB 3:17 There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

JOB 3:18 There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

JOB 3:19 The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.

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