Oracles were thought to be portals through which the gods spoke directly to people.

Oracles were common in many civilizations of antiquity.

* Step 4: Return Home — Oracles were meant to give advice to shape future action, that was meant to be implemented by the supplicant, or by those that had sponsored the supplicant to visit the Oracle.

The Roman Sibylline Books were quite different in character from the preserved Sibylline Oracles, which typically predict disasters rather than prescribe solutions.

These lectures, first printed separately, were afterwards published together under the title of A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainly of the Christian Revelation, in opposition to Thomas Hobbes, Spinoza, the author of the Oracles of Reason, and other Deniers of Natural and Revealed Religion.

Oracles are a way of determining from where the suspected witchcraft is coming, and were for a long time the ultimate legal authority and the main determining factor in how one would respond to the threats.

Fell probably had some share in the composition of The Whole Duty of Man, and in the subsequent works published under the name of the author of The Whole Duty, which included Reasons of the Decay of Christian Piety, The Ladies ' Calling, The Gentleman's Calling, The Government of the Tongue, The Art of Contentment, and The Lively Oracles given us, all of which were published in one volume with notes and a preface by Fell in 1684.

Succeeding generations saw Leo as a prophet and a magician, and soon a collection of oracular poems and some short divinatory texts, the so-called Oracles of Leo the Wise, at least in part based on earlier Greek sources, were attached to the Emperor's name in later centuries, and were believed to foretell the future of the world.

Scriptures were collected from the Old and New Testament ; the Pistis Sophia and other scriptures known before the Nag Hammadi find ; the Nag Hammadi scriptures of the Gospel of Thomas, Gospel of Truth, and Gospel of Phillip ; Cathar, Hermetic, Manichean, and Mandaean sources ; and the Chaldean Oracles.

* In Bryan Davis's novel series Dragons in Our Midst and Oracles of Fire, the Nephillim were offspring of fallen angels, known as Watchers, and human women.

The Sibylline Oracles were quoted by the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus ( late 1st century ) as well as by numerous Christian writers of the second century, including Athenagoras of Athens who, in a letter addressed to Marcus Aurelius in ca.

The world's history and mythology were created by dark fantasy writer Maria Alexander ( then Maria Douglas ), and the world was run by " Oracles " — that is, keepers of the world under the guidance of Morpheus, the God of Dreams.

The first two Oracles were named Vaserius and Teresias ; soon to be followed by Uni.

Oracles were obtained from it in various ways.

For many think that if they use any Idiome, it is Hebrew, because that was the first of all, and came from heaven, and was before the confusion of languages in Babylon, in which the Law was given by God the Father, and the Gospell was preached by Christ the Son, and so many Oracles were given to the Prophets by the Holy Ghost: and seeing all tongues have, and do undergo various mutations, and corruptions, this alone doth alwaies continue inviolated.

He was also instructed in the " theurgic " Neoplatonism, as derived from the Orphic and Chaldean Oracles.

Education is important for comprehending the scheme of things as presented by Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoras but also by the Chaldaean Oracles.

It also presents notable parallels to the Sibylline Oracles while its influence has been conjectured, almost with certainty, in the Acts of Perpetua and the visions narrated in the Acts of Thomas and the History of Barlaam and Josaphat.

Education is important for comprehending the scheme of things as presented by Aristotle, Plato and Pythagoras but also by the Chaldaean Oracles.

Porphyry is also known as an opponent of Christianity and defender of Paganism ; his defense of traditional religion, Philosophy from Oracles, written before the persecutions of Christians under Diocletian and Galerius, set out the basis for them:

Socrates then went on a " divine mission " to solve the paradox ( that an ignorant man could also be the wisest of all men ) and to clarify the meaning of the Oracles ' words.

Syrianus also wrote works on The Theology of Orpheus, and On the Harmony of Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato with the Oracles.

Resistance against the Exarchs is possible because of the Oracles, a small number ( probably five ) of Atlantean mages who also climbed the ladder.

Angel goes to the Oracles to ask for Doyle's life back, but they will not help him, even when he protests that Doyle, aside from being his friend, was also his only link to The Powers That Be.

He was also the chief musical collaborator with lyricist Chris Mosdell on three of his solo albums, Equasian ( also with Kazuhiko Kato ), The Oracles of Distraction, and Fingerprints of the Gods-the latter being the sonic setting of the Graham Hancock book of the same title.

Post-Exilic Hebrew books of prophecy such as the Book of Daniel and Book of Ezekiel are given new interpretations in this Christian tradition, while apocalyptic forecasts appear in the Judeo-Christian Sibylline Oracles and in the whole field of apocalyptic literature, which includes the Book of Revelation ascribed to John, the apocryphal Apocalypse of Peter, and the Second Book Of Esdras.

Oracles promised deliverance if Laomedon would expose his daughter Hesione to be devoured by the sea monster ( in other versions, the lot happened to fall on her ) and he exposed her by fastening her naked to the rocks near the sea.

Oracles might be situated by ancient springs.

* Papias ' Exposition of the Oracles of the Lord in five books, mentioned by Eusebius.

Oracles had named Esarhaddon as the person to free the exiles and rebuild Babylon, the destruction of which by Sennacherib was felt to be sacrilegious.

* Oracles or speeches by the prophets, usually in poetic form, and drawing on a wide variety of genres, including covenant lawsuit, oracles against the nations, judgment oracles, messenger speeches, songs, hymns, narrative, lament, law, proverb, symbolic gesture, prayer, wisdom saying, and vision.

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* Oracles ( album ), an album by Italian death metal band Fleshgod Apocalypse

* "' The Living Oracles ': Legal Interpretation and Mormon Thought " by Nathan Oman ( Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought )

The Oracles of Pennsylvania Avenue ( 2012 ) by Tim Wilkerson, a documentary commissioned by the Al Jazeera Documentary Channel, recounts the lives of Mayer, Thomas, Concepcion Picciotto and Ellen Thomas.

That use of the Sibylline Oracles was not always exclusive to Christians is shown by an extract from Book III concerning the Tower of Babel as quoted by the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, in the late 1st century AD.

Oracles at the Oak was a tradition originally carried out by the senior class during the early-to-mid 1900s underneath an oak tree on campus.

The Oracles are nevertheless thought by modern scholars to be anonymous compilations that assumed their final form in the fifth century, after the Sibylline Books perished.

The Oracles of Apollo in Asia Minor

* Oracles ( or prophecies against the Gentile nations which surrounded Judah during the time of its writing ( 1. 3-2. 6 )

* Carroll R., M. Daniel Amos: The Prophet and His Oracles.

Also, the ' Oracles against the Nations ', that appear as chapters 46-51 in the Masoretic and most dependent versions, in the Septuagint are located right after 25: 13, and in a different order.

* 1. 2-2. 11 Oracles of judgment

* 2. 12-13 Oracles of restoration

* 3. 1-12 Oracles of judgment

* 4. 1-5. 15 Oracles of restoration

* 6. 1-7. 6 Oracles of judgment

* 7. 7-20 Oracles of restoration

* Morgan, Catherine, Athletes and Oracles: The Transformation of Olympia and Delphi in the Eighth Century BC, Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Hekate Soteira: A Study of Hekate's Role in the Chaldean Oracles and Related Literature.

Section 14. 3: Oracles, pp. 339 – 343.

The Sibylline Oracles are a collection of oracular utterances written in Greek hexameters ascribed to the Sibyls, prophetesses who uttered divine revelations in a frenzied state.

Oracles played key roles in many of the major incidents of the epics Mahabharata and Ramayana.

The Oracles of the Ancient World: A Comprehensive Guide.