All things, by their relation to each other, can give omens; because all together they are only different parts of one animal, the Universe. … Wise men see beforehand that which may happen;…Some … prophesy by … listening to the songs of birds, or through watching their flight and their haunts. … (A)ll are able to draw prognostications from everything. If a bird had our intelligence, man would serve it, as the bird serves man, for knowledge and divination: because we are as to them that which they are to us, a race which, always renewing itself and as old as the world, is entirely qualified to give signs. – from On Dreams by Saint Synesios, 4th century – translated by Isaac Myer 1888.
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“because all together they are only different parts of one animal, the Universe.” Which is exactly what I’ve been teaching for decades now…
All things, by their relation to each other, can give omens; because all together they are only different parts of one animal, the Universe. … Wise men see beforehand that which may happen;…Some … prophesy by … listening to the songs of birds, or through watching their flight and their haunts. … (A)ll are able to draw prognostications from everything. If a bird had our intelligence, man would serve it, as the bird serves man, for knowledge and divination: because we are as to them that which they are to us, a race which, always renewing itself and as old as the world, is entirely qualified to give signs. – from On Dreams by Saint Synesios, 4th century – translated by Isaac Myer 1888.
“because all together they are only different parts of one animal, the Universe.” Which is exactly what I’ve been teaching for decades now…