Today's Bibliomancy for Kurt Vonnegut

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:

days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.

KI1 15:6 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

KI1 15:7 Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

KI1 15:8 And Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead.

KI1 15:9 And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah.

KI1 15:10 And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem. And his

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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:

I am weak, then am I strong.

CO2 12:11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled me: for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I be nothing.

CO2 12:12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

CO2 12:13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to other churches, except it be that I myself was not burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong.

CO2 12:14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you; and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek not your's but you: for the

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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:

one of the heathen; he shall surely deal with him: I have driven him out for his wickedness.

EZE 31:12 And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land; and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.

EZE 31:13 Upon his ruin shall all the fowls of the heaven remain, and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches:

EZE 31:14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick

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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:

not touch; they are unclean to you.

LEV 11:9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

LEV 11:10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

LEV 11:11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

LEV 11:12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

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