Posted on 08/24/2002 1:40:14 PM PDT by drstevej
Divination Dictionary
For the king of Babylon will stop at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He will cast lots with arrows, he will consult his idols, he will examine the liver. -- Ezekiel 21:21
Aleuromancy - sentences written on paper and rolled in dough then distributed indicating ones fortune.
Alphitomancy - slices of a barley loaf are eaten, the one getting indigestion is deemed guilty.
Arithmancy - a form of numerology / gametria where the combatant with a name of a higher number is predicted as the winner.
Astrology & Horoscopes - position of the stars and time of birth determines one’s future.
Augury - omen taken from the flight or singing of birds.
Austomancy - divination via the wind’s direction or intensity.
Belomancy - arrows are thown in the air and the angle of fall is observed.
Bibliomancy - divination via Bible words or verses selected at random.
Biorythm - combines astrology & numerology to determine personal daily energy, emotion and mental levels.
Capnomancy - divination via the fumes of poppies tossed on hot coals.
Cartomancy (Card Reading) via Major Arcana [deck of 20 Tarot cards] or Minor Arcana [deck of 52 cards with four suits: coins, cups, swords and staffs].
Ceremancy - melted wax poured in liquid to form shapes.
Chaomancy - divination via the shape of clouds.
Chiromancy (Palmistry) - divination via the shape of the hand and lines on the hand.
Crystalmancy (Crystal Gazing) - spherical or egg shaped quartz ball.
Gematria - numerological association of names with the same value.
Gyromancy - walking in circle with alphabet letters on perimeter until dizzy. The letter where one stumbles is observed and interpreted.
Hepatomancy - observation of the liver of a sacrificed animal.
Hydromancy - gazing into a pool of water or a bowl. I Ching [Book of Changes] throw yarrow sticks and compare design to the book.
Iridology - study of a person’s eye, the design and markings to determine medical condition.
Molybdomancy - molten tin or lead is poured in liquid to form shapes.
Numerology - names and dates given numerical equivalents.
Onychomancy - observation of the shape formed by the sun’s rays reflected off the fingernails of a young boy.
Oomancy - an egg is broken into a glass of water and the shape of the white observed.
Ophiomancy - an omen drawn from the color and movement of serpents.
Ouija Board - a planchette moves to spell out on the Ouija board the answer to questions.
Pegomancy - stones are dropped in water and their movement and the water’s ripples are observed.
Radiesthesia (Dowsing) - use of rod or pendulum to locate objects or answer questions.
Rhasdomancy - divination via words or verses are selected at random from works of the great poets.
Runes - 24 stones with a symbol are cast out of a bag and interpreted.
Scapulomancy - observation of the shape of cracks in the shoulder blade of an animal sacrificed by fire.
Scrying - staring at a shiny object until an image or shape appears.
Seances - contact with spirit world via a medium or channel.
Stolsisomancy - omen based on how a person is dressed.
Tasseomancy - the pattern of tea leaves is interpreted.
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Lev. 19:26 "Do not practice divination or sorcery."
Deut. 18:10-13 "Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, who practices divination or sorcery, interprets omens, engages in witchcraft, or casts spells, or who is a medium or spiritist or who consults the dead. Anyone who does these things is detestable to the LORD, and because of these detestable practices the LORD your God will drive out those nations before you. You must be blameless before the LORD your God."
Johnathan Edwards is so going to hell.
The "Crossing Over" TV guy, not the pastor/writer.
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MORMON DOCTIRNE ~
DivinationSee FORTUNE TELLING, NECROMANCY, OCCULTISM, PROPHECY, SORCERY, WITCHCRAFT.
True religion provides for a revelation of future events by prophets sent of God. False religions — whose ministers have no communion with Deity — frequently imitate the true practice by engaging in divination. This practice is an attempt to foretell the future by auguries, omens, presages, or forebodings. Among primitive peoples it frequently meant interpreting dreams or other signs or seeking peculiarities in the entrails of sacrificial victims. A diviner is one who attempts to foretell the future by divination. Soothsayers act by the "spirit of divination." ("acts 16:16"acts 16:17"acts 16:18Acts 16:16-18.) The Lord's people are commanded not to engage in divination of any sort. ("deut. 18:9"deut. 18:10"deut. 18:11"deut. 18:12"deut. 18:13"deut. 18:14Deut. 18:9-14.)
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Urim and Thummim
818See BOOK OF MORMON, GOLD PLATES, PEEP STONES, REVELATION.
From time to time, as his purposes require, the Lord personally, or through the ministry of appointed angels, delivers to chosen prophets a Urim and Thummim to be used in receiving revelations and in translating ancient records from unknown tongues. With the approval of the Lord these prophets are permitted to pass these instruments on to their mortal successors.
818A Urim and Thummim consists of two special stones called seer stones or interpreters. The Hebrew words urim and thummim both plural, mean lights and perfections. Presumably one of the stones is called Urim and the other Thummim. Ordinarily they are carried in a breastplate over the heart. ("ex. 28:30Ex. 28:30; "lev. 8:8Lev. 8:8.) 818Because of the sacred nature of these holy instruments they have not been viewed by most men, and even the times and circumstances under which they have been held by mortals are not clearly set forth. Undoubtedly they were in use before the flood, but the first scriptural reference to them is in connection with the revelations given the Brother of Jared. ("ether 3:21"ether 3:22"ether 3:23"ether 3:24"ether 3:25"ether 3:26"ether 3:27"ether 3:28Ether 3:21-28.) Abraham had them in his day ("abr. 3:1"abr. 3:2"abr. 3:3"abr. 3:4Abra. 3:1-4), and Aaron and the priests in Israel had them from generation to generation. ("ex. 28:30Ex. 28:30; "lev. 8:8Lev. 8:8; "num. 27:21Num. 27:21; "deut. 33:8Deut. 33:8; 1 Sam. 28:6; "ezra 2:63Ezra 2:63; "neh. 7:65Neh. 7:65.) There is no record that Lehi brought a Urim and Thummim to this continent, but King Mosiah had one prior to the discovery of the Book of Ether, and it was handed down from prophet to prophet. ("omni 1:0"omni 1:1"omni 1:2"omni 1:3"omni 1:4"omni 1:5"omni 1:6"omni 1:7"omni 1:8"omni 1:9"omni 1:10"omni 1:11"omni 1:12"omni 1:13"omni 1:14"omni 1:15"omni 1:16"omni 1:17"omni 1:18"omni 1:19"omni 1:20"omni 1:21Omni 20-21; "mosiah 8:13"mosiah 8:14"mosiah 8:15"mosiah 8:16"mosiah 8:17"mosiah 8:18"mosiah 8:19Mosiah 8:13-19;"mosiah 21:26"mosiah 21:27"mosiah 21:28 21:26-28;"mosiah 28:11"mosiah 28:12"mosiah 28:13"mosiah 28:14"mosiah 28:15"mosiah 28:16"mosiah 28:17"mosiah 28:18"mosiah 28:19"mosiah 28:20 28:11-20; "alma 63:12Alma 63:12; "ether 4:1"ether 4:2"ether 4:3"ether 4:4"ether 4:5"ether 4:6"ether 4:7Ether 4:1-7.) 818Joseph Smith received the same Urim and Thummim had by the Brother of Jared for it was the one expressly provided for the translation of the Jaredite and Nephite records. ("D&C 10:1D. & C. 10:1;"D&C 17:1 17:1; "ether 3:22"ether 3:23"ether 3:24"ether 3:25"ether 3:26"ether 3:27"ether 3:28Ether 3:22-28.) It was separate and distinct from the one had by Abraham and the one had by the priests in Israel. The Prophet also had a seer stone which was separate and distinct from the Urim and Thummim, and which (speaking loosely) has been called by some a Urim and Thummim. (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, pp. 222-226.) 818President Joseph Fielding Smith, with reference to the seer stone and the Urim and Thummim, has written: "We have been taught since the days of the Prophet that the Urim and Thummim were returned with the plates to the angel. We have no record of the Prophet having the Urim and Thummim after the organization of the Church. Statements of translations by the Urim and Thummim after that date are evidently errors. The statement has been made that the Urim and Thummim was on the altar in the Manti Temple when that building was dedicated. The Urim and Thummim so spoken of, however, was the seer stone which was in the possession of the Prophet Joseph Smith in early days. This seer stone is now in the possession of the Church." (Doctrines of Salvation, vol. 3, p. 225.)
819When Moroni first revealed to the Prophet the existence of the gold plates, he also said "that there were two stones in silver bows — and these stones, fastened to a breastplate constituted what is called the Urim and Thummim — deposited with the plates; and the possession and use of these stones were what constituted 'seers' in ancient or former times; and that God had prepared them for the purpose of translating the book." (Jos. Smith 2:35, 59, 62.) Ammon said of these same stones: "The things are called interpreters, and no man can look in them except he be commanded lest he should look for that he ought not and he should perish. And whosoever is commanded to look in them, the same is called seer." ("mosiah 8:13Mosiah 8:13;"mosiah 28:13"mosiah 28:14"mosiah 28:15"mosiah 28:16 28:13-16.)
819The existence and use of the Urim and Thummim as an instrument of revelation will continue among exalted beings in eternity. From the inspired writings of the Prophet we learn that angels "reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire, where all things for their glory are manifest, past, present, and future, and are continually before the Lord. The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim. This earth, in its sanctified and immortal state, will be made like unto crystal and will be a Urim and Thummim to the inhabitants who dwell thereon, whereby all things pertaining to an inferior kingdom, or all kingdoms of a lower order, will be manifest to those who dwell on it; and this earth will be Christ's. Then the white stone mentioned in "rev. 2:17Revelation 2:17, will become a Urim and Thummim to each individual who receives one, whereby things pertaining to a higher order of kingdoms will be made known." ("D&C 130:6"D&C 130:7"D&C 130:8"D&C 130:9"D&C 130:10"D&C 130:11D. & C. 130:6-11.)
This same passage is used against Catholics,and praying to the saints.Are we a cult as well?
Peep Stones
See DEVIL, REVELATION, URIM AND THUMMIM.
In imitation of the true order of heaven whereby seers receive revelations from God through a Urim and Thummim, the devil gives his own revelations to some of his followers through peep stones or crystal balls. An instance of this copying of the true order occurred in the early days of this dispensation. Hiram Page had such a stone and was professing to have revelations for the upbuilding of Zion and the governing of the Church. Oliver Cowdery and some others were wrongly influenced thereby in consequence of which Oliver was commanded by revelation: "Thou shalt take thy brother, Hiram Page, between him and thee alone, and tell him that those things which he hath written from that stone are not of me, and that Satan deceiveth him." ("D&C 28:11D. & C. 28:11.)
Moses and Elijah appear with Christ to the disciples on the Mount of Transfiguration.And they were in fact dead.
Yes. The largest in the world (and richest too). They even have their own Marian Cult within.
There's a great day coming. The saints and the sinners shall be parted, left and right. Are you ready for that Judgment Day?
Ok.However, this is a great topic.Let's face it, this a deal breaker between Protestants and Catholics.
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