Today's Bibliomancy for Colin Powell

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:

JOH 6:57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.

JOH 6:58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever.

JOH 6:59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.

JOH 6:60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it?

JOH 6:61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?

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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:

gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:

EZE 37:22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.

EZE 37:23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

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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:

were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

CH1 19:17 And it was told David; and he gathered all Israel, and passed over Jordan, and came upon them, and set the battle in array against them. So when David had put the battle in array against the Syrians, they fought with him.

CH1 19:18 But the Syrians fled before Israel; and David slew of the Syrians seven thousand men which fought in chariots, and forty thousand footmen, and killed Shophach the captain of the host.

CH1 19:19 And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and became his

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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:

the LORD had commanded: and Aaron cast down his rod before Pharaoh, and before his servants, and it became a serpent.

EXO 7:11 Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

EXO 7:12 For they cast down every man his rod, and they became serpents: but Aaron's rod swallowed up their rods.

EXO 7:13 And he hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.

EXO 7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.

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