(You can pick up a tarot deck pretty cheaply and they usually come with a book explaining all the different divine interpretations).
Ayers responds by rejecting Wilson's divine annexation interpretation of superaddition in favor of a deflationary one.
According to Ayers' "divine architect" interpretation, Locke makes no distinction in etiology by calling a property superadded; he means only that God selected the property with particular care when first creating matter.
Besides prayers and invocations, means of communication with the divine include the interpretation of dreams and especially the practice of lubuko (divination) to consult the will of the ancestors before any important decision or to know the causes of misfortune.
In this connection, it is important to distinguish two questions which can be asked concerning the relation between divine inspiration and interpretation: (1) May readers of sacred texts rely on a divine inspiration of themselves (e.g. by the Holy Spirit) bringing them to a correct interpretation rather than on more usual interpretive means?
However, Muslim women reformers say culture is the problem, and like Zainah Anwar, intrepid Malaysian activist of Sisters in Islam, they add that, "the law might be divine but the interpretation is human".
Many of our family legends and anecdotes were set there: the deaf-mute village diviner whose ambiguous interpretation of fortunetelling cards propelled my then-impoverished middle-aged great-grandfather into cattle ranching.
But it did not work out that way: the ruling clergy have demanded absolute obedience to their interpretation of divine laws.
If God sustains the existence of the atoms themselves, while continuously recreating all of their modes, then the occasionalist conclusion that God is the only genuine cause does follow from this interpretation of divine conservative activity.
This advocated an interpretation of divine creation through the formation at one moment in time of primordial seeds of each species ("rationes seminales"), rather than their creation fully formed (Augustine 1982, chp. 23, 175 76).
