{"product_id":"bibliomancy-and-word-magic-the-complete-history-and-practice-of-divination-through-sacred-texts-across-every-major-tradition-9798250248112","title":"Bibliomancy and Word Magic: The Complete History and Practice of Divination Through Sacred Texts Across Every Major Tradition","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eilidh Stewart\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: I Ching\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBIBLIOMANCY AND WORD MAGIC\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is something that happens when a person opens a sacred text in a moment of genuine need and finds, looking back at them from the page, exactly what they needed to hear. It has happened in every century of recorded history, in every culture that produced a sacred book, to emperors and rabbis and ordinary people sitting alone in the dark with a question that nothing else could answer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is the full story of that phenomenon.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor more than three thousand years, across every major civilization that developed a written language, human beings have consulted sacred texts as oracles. The practice reaches back to a foundational human understanding shared across traditions that could not have borrowed it from each other: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eLanguage is not merely a human tool.\u003c\/i\u003e It is a participation in a larger order of meaning that exceeds any individual use of it.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe word came before the world.\u003c\/i\u003e From the Vedic Om to the Greek Logos to the Hebrew letters of creation to the uncreated Quran, the greatest traditions of sacred language agree on this.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eThe sacred text is alive.\u003c\/i\u003e Not metaphorically. Literally, in the understanding of every tradition that built a practice around its consultation.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe traditions covered include: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Roman \u003ci\u003esortes Virgilianae\u003c\/i\u003e, consulted by emperors at the highest stakes moments of Roman history\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Jewish \u003ci\u003egoral\u003c\/i\u003e, practiced by the Vilna Gaon and embedded in three thousand years of Kabbalistic letter mysticism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Islamic \u003ci\u003efal-e Quran\u003c\/i\u003e and the Persian tradition of consulting the Divan of Hafez\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eI Ching\u003c\/i\u003e, the oldest continuously practiced divinatory system on earth, from Confucius to Carl Jung\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe runic and ogham alphabetic traditions of the Norse and Celtic worlds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Christian \u003ci\u003esortes sanctorum\u003c\/i\u003e, condemned by church councils and practiced anyway, for reasons that the church's own theology made impossible to argue against\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlso explored: \u003c\/b\u003e the psychology of genuine oracular response, the neuroscience of receptive attention, the ethics of the practice, the techniques of every tradition, the extension of word magic into mantra, charm, sigil and sacred calligraphy, and the development of a personal practice grounded in the full historical record.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe oracle has been speaking since before the first letter was written. It is speaking still.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47568771252375,"sku":"9798250248112","price":1095.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798250248112.webp?v=1774870711","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bibliomancy-and-word-magic-the-complete-history-and-practice-of-divination-through-sacred-texts-across-every-major-tradition-9798250248112","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}