The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann.

  • Hartmann, Franz, 1838-1912.
Date:
1889
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Credit: The principles of astrological geomancy : the art of divining by punctuation / according to Cornelius Agrippa and others ; with an appendix containing 2,048 answers to questions, by Franz Hartmann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. The following book is not intended to be a “ fortune teller,” but an aid for the student of the higher science, who desires to develop his intuition. A book teaching the art of mixing colours would not make an artist out of a person who has no talent for painting; but to one who is an artist by nature such a book may be very useful. Likewise a work on Geomancy, teaching the rules by which certain truths which are spiritually perceived by the soul, may be brought within the understanding of the external mind, will be of little service to those whose souls have no power of perceiving the truth. Nevertheless, there is at least a germ of truth in every human being, and every power is developed by exercise. The practice of Geomancy requires above all concentration of thought, and the use of that faculty of the mind by which several ideas may be grasped at once, and be brought to a focus within the field of consciousness, and those who follow the rules prescribed in these pages, may thereby expand their mental faculties and strengthen their intuition, so as to be able to correctly prophecy future events and divine unknown things. The superficial reasoner, whose mind is captivated by the external and illusive appearance of the world of phenomena, will naturally treat with contempt all knowledge claiming to have been derived from a source superior to reasoning from the base of external observation; but a deeper penetration into the realm of causes will disclose to the lover of truth, the Unity of the divine Law that governs all things, and according to which all external things,