The prerequisite for good judgement in matters of the external world, and the divination of falsehood, is a knowledge and examination of the soul.
Unlike prognostics, which simply provide information to correlate natural phenomena and human activities, divinations require action, usually the manipulation of numbers, to answer a question.
These are two groups of three works, the first on alchemy,46 the second on divination.
At the end of the quire, on originally blank leaves, two scribes have added brief notes on indulgences and feasts, and an alphabetic divination (40).
The shape of copper money, chess boards, divination boards, and the decoration of bronze mirrors all reflected this idea.
This is no divination but is a natural thing in creation.
But intuition is a very tricky faculty in the fields of science and mathematics, for it essentially means divination.
The series of practices occurring during the nine days of the festival are strictly regulated by tradition and divination.
