The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

those of eternity. What makes this necessary is that, when dealing with spiritual matters and the supernatural, the one so empowered is immediately thrown into the sphere of the timeless where the spirits and powers of creation controlling or manipulating it abide. Since those spirits are timeless, their effective wielding of the Creator’s power dispensations is not limited to or reliant upon humanity’s eras, generations, or trends. Their stations and tasks are irrespective to the contemporary fads of the earth, superseding them by being bound by only what the Lord God has assigned and decreed. The other tongues in general, as taught in the New Testament, enable humans to transcend the contemporary and human barriers of our world to access the invisible spheres, provisions, and properties of eternity the Lord ordained for those of the earth. The diversities of tongues center this ability in the realm of spiritual clout, the supernatural exercise of the New Creation spirit, and the ability to enforce the will and commands of the Creator on the terrestrial renegade spirits harassing this world. See Speaking in Other Tongues. 388. Divination—What would be known today as the New Age psychic movement, divination is an institution of retrieving and exchanging spiritual information that reports on people’s futures—mostly their fortunes and tragedies —from different objects. Types of divination are tarot card readings, divining rod, water flows and puddles, tea leaf readings, lots casting or sorting, augury, astrology, liver and entrail reading—hepatoscopy and haruspicy (effective only when linked to live sacrifice)—and palm reading. Included in these are alchemy, metoposcopy (forehead divination), oracles, numerology, oneiromancy, phrenology, runes, talismans, chiromancy, geomancy, and rhabdomancy. Generally, the suffix mancy on the end of a word indicates that it is a form of divination. Likewise, mantic as a suffix. It too stemmed from the root of divination. That means prayer, spiritual manipulation, and probably sacrifices and oblations (drink offerings) originally played a great role in the success of the activity or event associated with the word. Divination invariably relies on objects, inanimate or not, for its information. This type of spiritual inquisition is tied to nature worship and resorts to natural elements to retrieve its spiritual data. See Magic. Often divination is joined with magic and sorcery and further exploits nature with herbology, where potions are made as offerings to petitioned spirits for audience and favor. One cannot divine apart from a covenant containing prescribed formulae for appealing to, appeasing, and interrogating a familiar or demon spirit, or cajoling one to release facts about a person into this world that would otherwise be unobtainable.