Divination

The scrier or diviner of hidden knowledge typically produces (or observes) a random ordering or arrangement of something: tea leaves at the bottom of a cup, a fall of knuckle-bones, dice, lots, cards, coins, straws, sticks or stalks. The diviners' forms of presentation show almost infinite variety. Ultimately, the rationale of divination is that the knowledge of how all things occur is presented in the glyphs or symbols of the world's objects who were created by God with the very potential of being 'read'. The diviner can read a flower (perhaps by plucking off its leaves according to some formula); he can read the omens of the sky-bird or cloud formations; or he can read in water ripples or in fire-sparks. The greatest forms of presentation for divination are the lines and ligatures of the human body, the facial features, the lines of the palm, the hand-writing and the horoscope's angles and aspects.