Today's Bibliomancy for Nick Cave

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:

Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

CO2 2:15 For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

CO2 2:16 To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

CO2 2:17 For we are not as many, which corrupt the word of God: but as of sincerity, but as of God, in the sight of God speak we in Christ.

CO2 3:1 Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from

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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:

God most high? I beseech thee, torment me not.

LUK 8:29 (For he had commanded the unclean spirit to come out of the man. For oftentimes it had caught him: and he was kept bound with chains and in fetters; and he brake the bands, and was driven of the devil into the wilderness.)

LUK 8:30 And Jesus asked him, saying, What is thy name? And he said, Legion: because many devils were entered into him.

LUK 8:31 And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.

LUK 8:32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into

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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:

SA1 11:12 And the people said unto Samuel, Who is he that said, Shall Saul reign over us? bring the men, that we may put them to death.

SA1 11:13 And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day: for to day the LORD hath wrought salvation in Israel.

SA1 11:14 Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.

SA1 11:15 And all the people went to Gilgal; and there they made Saul king before the LORD in Gilgal; and there they sacrificed sacrifices of peace offerings before the LORD; and there Saul and all the men of Israel rejoiced greatly.

SA1 12:1 And Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I have hearkened unto

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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:

every precious thing.

JOB 28:11 He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.

JOB 28:12 But where shall wisdom be found? and where is the place of understanding?

JOB 28:13 Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living.

JOB 28:14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.

JOB 28:15 It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

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