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:

her plantation.

EZE 17:8 It was planted in a good soil by great waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

EZE 17:9 Say thou, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither? it shall wither in all the leaves of her spring, even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof.

EZE 17:10 Yea, behold, being planted, shall it prosper? shall it not utterly wither, when the east wind toucheth it? it shall wither in the furrows where it grew.

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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:

boweth down upon his knees to drink.

JDG 7:6 And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water.

JDG 7:7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.

JDG 7:8 So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

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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:

scalp of such an one as goeth on still in his trespasses.

PSA 68:22 The Lord said, I will bring again from Bashan, I will bring my people again from the depths of the sea:

PSA 68:23 That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thine enemies, and the tongue of thy dogs in the same.

PSA 68:24 They have seen thy goings, O God; even the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary.

PSA 68:25 The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

PSA 68:26 Bless ye God in the congregations, even the Lord, from the fountain of Israel.

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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:

with my affliction.

PHI 4:15 Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

PHI 4:16 For even in Thessalonica ye sent once and again unto my necessity.

PHI 4:17 Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.

PHI 4:18 But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

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