The Principles of Astrological Geomancy

Franz Hartmann

143 chapters · about 2 h

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INTRODUCTION.

The tcmi “divining,” or “divination,” comes from divine,” and the art of divination is based upon the recognition of a universal divine principle acting within the soul. Man is said to be the crown of creation; in him are combined the quintessences of all the four kingdoms. He is at once a mineral, a plant, an animal, and a god, and each of these constituent parts has its own peculiar states of consciousness, its own sensations, desires, feelings, and perceptions. The divine Light which shines within the darkness of his material constitution is the eternal Spirit of God, in which there exists neither past nor the future time, but in whose consciousness all things are forever present. Its presence is felt within the soul as the divine power of Intuition, and if the Mind of man were to rise entirely above the realm of selfishness, to become illuminated by the Light of the Spirit, there would be no need for Geomancy or for any other artificial aids to bring the knowledge of the Spirit to the understanding of the material Intellect. We could then not only intuitively feel the truth, but see it and know it without any argumentation or mathematical reasoning.

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The words
The author's text, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 7 places
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 3 places
  • The scanned cover and the library's labels, read by the OCR as specks (6 blocks)
  • The half title (GEOMANCY.)
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The imprint (Allen, Scott and Co., 1889) and the library's mark (4 blocks)
  • Specks at the edge of a blank page (3 blocks)
  • The library's label and specks on the end papers
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 76 places
  • The source website's menus, layout and notices, in 2 places
  • Planet and zodiac signs printed as pictures, on lines of their own (print page 35), read by the OCR as: c? j
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 20
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 26
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 27
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 32 (40 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 33 (25 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 34
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 35
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 45 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 46 (5 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 47 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 48 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 49 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 50 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 51 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 52 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 53 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 54 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 55 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 56 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 57 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 58 (4 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 59 (8 blocks)
  • Print page 61: a library stamp or speck in the figure's space (“WSA”)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 64 (15 blocks)
  • Geomantic figures and lines of points printed as rows of dots and strokes (pictures), on print page 67