Today's Stichomancy for Rene Magritte

The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from When a Man Marries by Mary Roberts Rinehart:

"In the first place," Max said, standing importantly in the middle of the room, "we retired between two and three--nearer three. So the theft occurred between three and five, when Anne woke up. Was your door locked, Dal?"

"No. The door into the hall was, but the door into the dressing room was open, and we found the door from there into the hall open this morning."

"From three until five," Max repeated. "Was any one out of his room during that time?"

"I was," said Tom Harbison promptly, from the foot of the bed. "I was prowling all around somewhere about four, searching"--he

The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte by Karl Marx:

there was, however, one on the responsibility of the President of the republic. In 1851 the Legislature was just engaged in framing such a law when Bonaparte forestalled that political stroke by his own of December 2. What all would not the coalized royalists have given in their winter parliamentary campaign of 1851, had they but found this "Responsibility law" ready made, and framed at that, by the suspicious, the vicious republican Assembly!

After, on January 29, 1849, the constitutive assembly had itself broken its last weapon, the Barrot ministry and the "Friends of Order" harassed it to death, left nothing undone to humiliate it, and wrung from its weakness, despairing of itself, laws that cost it the last vestige of

The third excerpt represents the element of Water. It speaks of pure spiritual influences and feelings of love, and is drawn from The Augsburg Confession by Philip Melanchthon:

have been so abused for filthy lucre as the Mass.

There was also added the opinion which infinitely increased Private Masses, namely that Christ, by His passion, had made satisfaction for original sin, and instituted the Mass wherein an offering should be made for daily sins, venial and mortal. From this has arisen the common opinion that the Mass takes away the sins of the living and the dead by the outward act. Then they began to dispute whether one Mass said for many were worth as much as special Masses for individuals, and this brought forth that infinite multitude of Masses. [With this work men wished to obtain from God all that they needed, and

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 The Tanach:

Psalms 135: 21 Blessed be the LORD out of Zion, who dwelleth at Jerusalem. Hallelujah.

Psalms 136: 1 O give thanks unto the LORD, for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 2 O give thanks unto the God of gods, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 3 O give thanks unto the Lord of lords, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 4 To Him who alone doeth great wonders, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 5 To Him that by understanding made the heavens, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 6 To Him that spread forth the earth above the waters, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 7 To Him that made great lights, for His mercy endureth for ever;

Psalms 136: 8 The sun to rule by day, for His mercy endureth for ever;

Psalms 136: 9 The moon and stars to rule by night, for His mercy endureth for ever.

Psalms 136: 10 To Him that smote Egypt in their first-born, for His mercy endureth for ever;

The Tanach