The word 'divination' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to the practice of seeking knowledge of the future by supernatural means. For example: "The shaman used divination to determine the fate of the village."
Die Kämpfe Gottes, 2 vol).. Divided into six parts, the work treats exhaustively of the immortality of the soul; dreams, divination, and prophecy; divine knowledge; providence; celestial spheres and separate intellects and their relationship with God; and the creation of the world, miracles, and the criteria by which one recognizes the true prophet.
Though divination in historical times was regularly presented in terms of ascertaining the divine will, there are internal indications in the materials suggesting that it was originally less theologically elaborated.
The ridiculing of Pythagoras' claim to have recognized the soul of a departed friend in the voice of a barking dog (B7), together with the attacks on divination credited to Xenophanes in A52, reflect the broader denial of knowledge of divine attributes and operations set out in B34.
Given the racket they generate, it is possible that Mr Cameron's renegotiation ploy has actually made it likelier that Britons will vote to quit the union than if he had simply promised them a vote on Britain's existing membership terms.The Germans rightly consider such things beyond their powers of divination.
Early Greenpeace voyages to save the whales were guided by I Ching, a Chinese system of divination, and "interspecies communicators" who followed moonbeams.
Such numerological assignments, as in the later Hebrew gematria, were often used for purposes of divination.
They prayed to Buddhist and Shinto gods (every vessel carried a shrine), and they prepared divination papers to find out where they were.
They used the mushrooms in religious ceremonies for healing, divination and communing with the spirit world.Now a study led by Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins University, and published this week in Psychopharmacology, has shown that psilocybin the active component in magic mushrooms does indeed induce mental states akin to the highest religious experiences.
There were many forms of divination.
Kobdas, magic drum used for trance induction and divination by the Lapp shaman, or noiade.
