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:

and commander to the people.

ISA 55:5 Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

ISA 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:

ISA 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

ISA 55:8 For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD.

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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:

by me; he shall be free.

MAR 7:12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

MAR 7:13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

MAR 7:14 And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

MAR 7:15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

MAR 7:16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

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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:

great stones, and plaister them with plaister:

DEU 27:3 And thou shalt write upon them all the words of this law, when thou art passed over, that thou mayest go in unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey; as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee.

DEU 27:4 Therefore it shall be when ye be gone over Jordan, that ye shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in mount Ebal, and thou shalt plaister them with plaister.

DEU 27:5 And there shalt thou build an altar unto the LORD thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

DEU 27:6 Thou shalt build the altar of the LORD thy God of whole

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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:

LEV 7:29 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, He that offereth the sacrifice of his peace offerings unto the LORD shall bring his oblation unto the LORD of the sacrifice of his peace offerings.

LEV 7:30 His own hands shall bring the offerings of the LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.

LEV 7:31 And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.

LEV 7:32 And the right shoulder shall ye give unto the priest for an heave offering of the sacrifices of your peace offerings.

LEV 7:33 He among the sons of Aaron, that offereth the blood of the

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