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Karl Spiesberger (29 October 1904 – 1 January 1992 [citation needed]) was a German mystic, occultist, Germanic revivalist and Runosophist. He is most well known for his revivalism and usage of the Sidereal Pendulum for divination and dowsing and for his anti-racialist stance and revivalist usage of the Armanen Futharkh runic system after the second world war, removing its negative connotations.
The difference is that divination is the term used for predictions considered part of a religious ritual, invoking deities or spirits, while the term fortune telling implies a less serious or formal setting, even one of popular culture, where belief in occult workings behind the prediction is less prominent than the concept of suggestion ...
Oneiromancy (from Greek όνειροϛ 'dream' and μαντεία (manteia) 'prophecy') is a form of divination based upon dreams, and also uses dreams to predict the future. Oneirogen plants may also be used to produce or enhance dream-like states of consciousness.
stichomancy / ˈ s t ɪ k oʊ m æ n s i /: by books or lines (Greek stikhos, ' line of verse ' + manteía, ' prophecy ') aleuromancy² / ə ˈ lj ʊər oʊ m æ n s i /: by fortune cookies (of the same origin as aleuromancy ¹) bibliomancy / ˈ b ɪ b l i oʊ m æ n s i /: by the Bible (Greek biblion, ' book ' + manteía, ' prophecy ')
Cartomancy (divination using playing cards); Centiloquium; Ceremonial magic; Chaos magic; Charmstone; Chinese astrology; Chromotherapy; Clairaudience (ability to hear voices & sounds super-normally- spirited voices alleging to be those of dead people giving advice or warnings)
The divination method of casting lots was used by the remaining eleven disciples of Jesus in Acts 1:23–26 to select a replacement for Judas Iscariot. Therefore, divination was arguably an accepted practice in the early church. However, divination became viewed as a pagan practice by Christian emperors during ancient Rome. [21]
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Croesus proclaimed the oracle at Delphi to be the most accurate, who correctly reported that the king was making a lamb-and-tortoise stew, and so he graced her with a magnitude of precious gifts. [9] He then consulted Delphi before attacking Persia , and according to Herodotus was advised: "If you cross the river, a great empire will be destroyed".