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Word Magic
Bibliomancy is divination using books, or more specifically words. Some form of bibliomancy has existed for a long time, from runes to prophetic poetry. Is all about the power of words … i ka ‘olelo ke ola, i ka ‘olelo ka make. In the words the life, the health. In the words, the misery, the…
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Secret Meaning
Why aren’t people discovering secret meaning in books all the time? Well, it’s simple. Many books are not written to contain the world. Modern books often are dwarfed in spirit so could work a little only, or not at all. Would the language used also be part of why not? With English, it’s hard to…
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Basis In Reality
Everyone familiar with the tarot? The imagery on those cards is archetypical, and archetypes are memetic presences at the very least, if not spirits. The “words” behind the tarot were an oral tradition. The images were crafted on buildings and any kind of sheltered structure in one form or another, and the only markings to…
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Brass Tacks Of Bibliomancy
Shall we get down to the brass tacks of bibliomancy? Actually, I have to back up, then we can. You cannot imagine something that has no basis in reality. Now take a sensitive person. They pick up a lot of stuff, things they sometimes can’t process, but it’s still in their head. Having picked up…
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Create Your Bibliomancy Book
You can easily create your own bibliomancy book. It would be best if you were in a clear meditative spiritual state. Grab a piece of scratch paper, because you will need it and it won’t be the finished product, and free associate. Write whatever words come into your head. Don’t “think”, just let words flow.…
Category: Bibliomancy
Divination using books, or more specifically words. Some form of bibliomancy has existed for a long time, from runes to prophetic poetry. Poetry in a simple declarative sentence that creates mystery, because the metaphors contain a deep truth and metaphysically poetry is literal. Poetry has power.
To practice bibliomancy, you let your eyes go over a source of words, and read until a word strikes you. When the word strikes you, you focus on it. Then close and open the book again at random, and read until another word strikes you. You can get as many words as you need until you sense the answer to your question. It can be just one or it can be that a whole sentence or passage strikes you, and that in itself is your answer.
“The words dripped on my consciousness, sank into my being, and carried me away to the magic long ago of once upon a time.” Peter Abrahams