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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:11 pm
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CURRENT LESSON This is where the newest shinyist lesson will be read this to learn the answers to classwork and homework
LESSON 1-HISTORY OF DIVINATION PT1 Hello students today we will talk about the basic principles behind all forms of divenation sorry if its a bit wordy but its from a text book on divination systems by the university of metaphysical sciences spoilers should make it easier to read all grammer and spelling errors are their its copy right exists as of 2005.
Prophetic revelation, or Divination, dates back to the earliest known times of human existence.The oldest of all Chinese texts, the I Ching, is a divination system older than recorded history. James Legge says in his translation of I Ching: Book Of Changes (1996), “The desire to seek answers and to predict the future is as old as civilization itself.” Mankind has always had a desire to know what the future holds. Evidence shows that methods of divination, also known as fortune telling, were used by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Babylonians and the Sumerians (who resided in what is now Iraq) as early as six‐thousand years ago. Divination was originally a device of royalty and has often been an essential part of religion and medicine. Significant leaders and royalty often employed priests, doctors, soothsayers and astrologers as advisers and consultants on what the future held. Every civilization has held a belief in at least some type of divination. The point of divination in the ancient world was to ascertain the will of the gods. In fact, divination is so called because it is assumed to be a gift of the divine, a gift from the gods.
This gift of obtaining knowledge of the unknown uses a wide range of tools and an enormous variety of techniques, as we will see in this course. No matter which method is used, the most imperative aspect is the interpretation and presentation of what is seen. The general consensus is that divination falls into three categories: interpretation of natural phenomena, (known as augury and includes such things as water, flight of a bird, shape of a flame, cloud formations, etc.); interpretation of artificial phenomena (casting runes, reading dominoes, Tarot Cards, numerology); and direct communication with a deity via dreams, visions or trances. These interpretations may not only foretell the future, but can also be used in determining a person’s character and how it has been created by events of the past.
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:14 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:17 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 3:18 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 4:04 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:22 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2013 7:23 pm
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Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2013 3:45 pm
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