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APPENDIX.
Artificial Divination is that whid;proceeds by reasoning
upon certain external signs, considered as indications
of futurity. This, contrary to Natural Divination, was
not obtained by direct inspiration; but proceeded upon
certain experiments and observations arbitrarily instituted
and mostly superstitious. Infinite are the s)'siems
ofdivination reducible to this head; the principal species
thereof, and their names, arc imdermclltioned.
PS!Jclwmancy, Sciomancyo 'Vhich consi8tcd in calling
.up the souls or shades of the dead, to learn of them
something l'€quired. -Daetyliomaney. Performed by
one or nlore rings.-Hydromancyo Performed with
sea water.-Pegomancyo Performed \vithspring watc1'.­
OrnitllOmaney, Augury. Divining by the actions of
birds. - Clidomaney. Performed by keys. - AlpMto.
maney, Aleuromaney. Performed by /lour. - Capnomaney.
Performed by smoke. -Pyromaney. Performed
by fire. - LitllOmaney. Performed by stones. - Lye"­
nomaney. Performed by lamps. - ~Veeromaney. Performed
by the dead or their bones. - Oneiromaney,
Oneiroeritiea. Performed by dreams. - Gastromaney.
Performed by the stomach. - CMromaney. Performed
by the lines of the hand. - Aritlmzomaney. Performed
by numbers.
n particle of the divine air or spirit, taken out of God, .
and to have existed from eternity, collected within itself,
and not diffused or divided among the organs of the
body, h::.s., from its own nature and essence, some fOl"cknowledge
of future things; witness whaf is seen in
dreams, ecstasies, the confines of death. The second is
founded on this, that the soul receives, after the manner
of a mirror, some secondary illumination from the presence
of God, and other spirits, and hence proceed
oracles; for it was a received opinion among the Heathens
that the Gods were wont to converse familiarly
with some men, whom they eudowed with extraordinary
powers, and admitted to the knowledge of their councils
and designs.