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| Divination is the
process of foreseeing future events or obtaining secret knowledge through divine sources,
omens, or oracles. It is based on the belief that revelations are offered to humans in
extrarational forms of knowledge: ancient Chaldeans studied birds' flight and patterns in
water or entrails; the Greeks put their trust in the ORACLE. Present-day forms of
divination include crystal gazing, palmistry, and astrology.
The practice was closely allied with religion among pagan,
Hebrew, and early Christian peoples. Contact
with the supernatural is usually sought through a psychic medium, a person supposedly
endowed with supernormal receptivity. In direct divination, the medium acquires knowledge
through direct contact with the unknown. The oracle, a medium or diviner who figured
prominently in the beliefs of a number of ancient peoples, including those of Babylonia
and Greece, typified the mediumistic method. Oracles employed various techniques in
establishing contact with divinity. Some, such as the oracle at Delphi, passed into a
trance and, in this condition,uttered divine messages. Others practiced oneiromancy, or
divination by dreams, and necromancy, the art of conjuring up revelations from the souls
of the dead. The direct method of divination is closely approximated in much of modern
spiritualism. In ancient Rome, augurs or priests performed their divination in elaborate ceremonies, called auguries, by reading auspices or omens. To determine the will of the gods, they utilized such forms of divination as haruspication, ornithomancy, and the interpretation of dreams and visions. These augurs, members of a college that existed in Rome from the founding of the city until late in the 4th century AD, exercised enormous power. No Roman would embark upon a major undertaking unless the augurs decided the auspices were favorable. The forms of inductive divination best known today include astrology; crystallomancy, or crystal gazing; bibliomancy, the interpretation of secret messages from books, especially from the Bible; numerology, the study of numbers; and the reading of palms, tea leaves, and cards. Divination in China followed a different course. In the
Shang dynasty, shoulder blades of oxen and the bottom shells of tortoises were inscribed
and heated. A message was derived from the pattern of cracks formed across the inscription
after heat was applied. The founder of the Zhou (Chou) dynasty is said to have established
the traditional patterns of lines and added the judgments of their significance. His son,
the duke of Zhou, is said to have composed the commentaries. The collected judgments are
known as T'uan and the commentaries as Yao. |
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