be still and listen when he speaks; he is the Living Oracle of God.45. And all the priests gave thanks, and praised the Buddha of enlightenment.
1. The Greek philosophy was full of pungent truth, and Jesus longed to study with the masters in the schools of Greece.2. And so he left his home in Nazareth and crossed the Carmel hills, and at the port took ship, and soon was in the Grecian capital.3. Now, the Athenians had heard of him as teacher and philosopher, and they were glad to have him come to them that they might hear his words of truth.4. Among the masters of the Greeks was one, Apollo, who was called, Defender of the Oracle, and recognised in many lands as Grecian sage.5. Apollo opened up for Jesus all the doors of Grecian lore, and in the Areopagus he heard the wisest masters speak.6. But Jesus brought to them a wisdom greater far than theirs; and so he taught.7. Once in the Amphitheatre he stood, and when Apollo bade him speak he said,8. Athenian masters, hear!
Goes with Apollo to Delphi and hears the Oracle speak.
He abides with Apollo, and is recognised as the living Oracle of God.
1. For many days the Grecian masters listened to the clear incisive words that Jesus spoke, and while they could not fully comprehend the things he said, they were delighted and accepted his philosophy.2. One day as Jesus and Apollo walked beside the sea, a Delphic courier came in haste and said, Apollo, master, come; the Oracle would speak to you.3. Apollo said to Jesus, Sir, if you would see the Delphic Oracle, and hear it speak, you may accompany me.
And Jesus did accompany him.4. The masters went in haste; and when they came to Delphi, great excitement reigned.5. And when Apollo stood before the Oracle it spoke and said:6. Apollo, sage of Greece, the bell strikes twelve; the midnight of the ages now has come.7. Within the womb of nature ages are conceived; they gestate and are born in glory with the rising sun, and when the agic sun goes down the age disintegrates and dies.8. The Delphic age has been an age of glory and renown; the gods have spoken to the sons of men through oracles of wood, and gold, and precious stone.9. The Delphic sun has set; the Oracle will go into decline; the time is near when men will hear its voice no more.10. The gods will speak to man by man.
The living Oracle now stands within these sacred groves; the Logos from on high has come.11. From henceforth will decrease my wisdom and my power; from henceforth will increase the wisdom and the power of him, Immanuel.12. Let all the masters stay; let every creature hear and honour him, Immanuel.13. And then the Oracle spoke not again for forty days, and priests and people were amazed.
They came from near and far to hear the Living Oracle speak forth the wisdom of the gods.14. And Jesus and the Grecian sage returned, and in Apollo's home the Living Oracle spoke forth for forty days.15. One day Apollo said to Jesus as they sat alone, This sacred Delphic Oracle has spoken many a helpful word for Greece.16. Pray tell me what it is that speaks.
It is the matchless wisdom of the master minds of Greece, united in a master mind.18. This giant mind has taken to itself the substances of soul, and thinks, and hears, and speaks.19. It will remain a living soul while master minds feed it with thought, with wisdom and with faith and hope.20. But when the master minds of Greece shall perish from the land, this giant master mind will cease to be, and then the Delphic Oracle will speak no more.
The Oracle had spoken loud and long.2. The priests were in the sanctuary and as they looked the Oracle became a blaze of light; it seemed to be on fire, and all consumed.3. The priests were filled with fear.
They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle.4. But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said,5. God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man.6. The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man, but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be.7. This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail.8. Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen's beach;9. And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said,10. Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men.
Following an oracle from Themis, they repopulate the earth by throwing stones behind them, which transform into humans.
The gods willed it that we are the only examples of mankind left behind.’ He spoke and they wept, resolving to appeal to the sky-god, and ask his help by sacred oracles.
Meanwhile they reconsider the words of the oracle given, that hide their true meaning under dark obscurity, and ponder them in their minds.
Then Prometheus’s son comforts Epimetheus’s daughter with calm words: ‘Either my reasoning deceives me, or, since oracles are divine and never direct wickedness, our great mother is the earth: I think the bones she speaks about are stones in the body of the earth.
Following an oracle from Themis, they repopulate the earth by throwing stones behind them, which transform into humans.
The God to whose temple they are going is the lawgiver of Crete, and this may be supposed to be the very cave at which he gave his oracles to Minos.
The conception of justice as the union of temperance, wisdom, courage (Laws; Republic): the latent idea of dialectic implied in the notion of dividing laws after the kinds of virtue (Laws); the approval of the method of looking at one idea gathered from many things, 'than which a truer was never discovered by any man' (compare Republic): or again the description of the Laws as parents (Laws; Republic): the assumption that religion has been already settled by the oracle of Delphi (Laws; Republic), to which an appeal is also made in special cases (Laws): the notion of the battle with self, a paradox for which Plato in a manner apologizes both in the Laws and the Republic: the remark (Laws) that just men, even when they are deformed in body, may still be perfectly beautiful in respect of the excellent justice of their minds (compare Republic): the argument that ideals are none the worse because they cannot be carried out (Laws; Republic): the near approach to the idea of good in 'the principle which is common to all the four virtues,' a truth which the guardians must be compelled to recognize (Laws; compare Republic): or again the recognition by reason of the right pleasure and pain, which had previously been matter of habit (Laws; Republic): or the blasphemy of saying that the excellency of music is to give pleasure (Laws; Republic): again the story of the Sidonian Cadmus (Laws), which is a variation of the Phoenician tale of the earth-born men (Republic): the comparison of philosophy to a yelping she-dog, both in the Republic and in the Laws: the remark that no man can practise two trades (Laws; Republic): or the advantage of the middle condition (Laws; Republic): the tendency to speak of principles as moulds or forms; compare the ekmageia of song (Laws), and the tupoi of religion (Republic): or the remark (Laws) that 'the relaxation of justice makes many cities out of one,' which may be compared with the Republic: or the description of lawlessness 'creeping in little by little in the fashions of music and overturning all things,'—to us a paradox, but to Plato's mind a fixed idea, which is found in the Laws as well as in the Republic: or the figure of the parts of the human body under which the parts of the state are described (Laws; Republic): the apology for delay and diffuseness, which occurs not unfrequently in the Republic, is carried to an excess in the Laws (compare Theaet.): the remarkable thought (Laws) that the soul of the sun is better than the sun, agrees with the relation in which the idea of good stands to the sun in the Republic, and with the substitution of mind for the idea of good in the Philebus: the passage about the tragic poets (Laws) agrees generally with the treatment of them in the Republic, but is more finely conceived, and worked out in a nobler spirit.
You know that Epimenides, the Cretan prophet, came and offered sacrifices in your city by the command of an oracle ten years before the Persian war.
First will enter the choir of children, who will lift up their voices on high; and after them the young men, who will pray the God Paean to be gracious to the youth, and to testify to the truth of their words; then will come the chorus of elder men, between thirty and sixty; and, lastly, there will be the old men, and they will tell stories enforcing the same virtues, as with the voice of an oracle.
Such a scheme, undertaken by men who had shared with one another toils and dangers, sanctioned by the Delphian oracle, under the guidance of the Heraclidae, seemed to have a promise of permanence.
In carrying out the distribution of the land, a prudent legislator will be careful to respect any provision for religious worship which has been sanctioned by ancient tradition or by the oracles of Delphi, Dodona, or Ammon.
At least, if any further changes are required, the magistrates must take the whole people into counsel, and obtain the sanction of all the oracles.
Next, with the help of the Delphian Oracle, we will appoint festivals and sacrifices.
In the elections to the priesthood, Plato endeavours to mix or balance in a friendly manner 'demus and not demus.' The commonwealth of the Laws, like the Republic, cannot dispense with a spiritual head, which is the same in both—the oracle of Delphi.
And ten are to be selected from the younger sons of the other citizens—one of whom is to be chosen by the oracle of Delphi to be heir of the lot.
He who unintentionally kills another man at the games or in military exercises duly authorized by the magistrates, whether death follow immediately or after an interval, shall be acquitted, subject only to the purification required by the Delphian Oracle.
To him who is careless of such consequences, and, despising the word of the wise, takes up a treasure which is not his—what will be done by the hand of the Gods, God only knows,—but I would have the first person who sees the offender, inform the wardens of the city or the country; and they shall send to Delphi for a decision, and whatever the oracle orders, they shall carry out.
Priests and priestesses may also follow, unless the Pythian oracle forbids.
They were ancient customs, some of them older probably than the settlement in Laconia, of which the origin is unknown; they occasionally received the sanction of the Delphic oracle, but there was a still stronger obligation by which they were enforced,—the necessity of self-defence: the Spartans were always living in the presence of their enemies.
You must have heard here the story of the prophet Epimenides, who was of my family, and came to Athens ten years before the Persian war, in accordance with the response of the Oracle, and offered certain sacrifices which the God commanded.
There remain those who are too old to sing, and they will tell stories, illustrating the same virtues, as with the voice of an oracle.
ATHENIAN: And would not men who had shared with one another many dangers, and were governed by a single race of royal brothers, and had taken the advice of oracles, and in particular of the Delphian Apollo, be likely to think that such states would be firmly and lastingly established?
And let what I have been saying be regarded as a kind of sacred legend or oracle, and let this be our proof that, in one point of view, there may be a difficulty for a city to have good laws, but that there is another point of view in which nothing can be easier or sooner effected, granting our supposition.
Whether the legislator is establishing a new state or restoring an old and decayed one, in respect of Gods and temples,—the temples which are to be built in each city, and the Gods or demi-gods after whom they are to be called,—if he be a man of sense, he will make no change in anything which the oracle of Delphi, or Dodona, or the God Ammon, or any ancient tradition has sanctioned in whatever manner, whether by apparitions or reputed inspiration of Heaven, in obedience to which mankind have established sacrifices in connexion with mystic rites, either originating on the spot, or derived from Tyrrhenia or Cyprus or some other place, and on the strength of which traditions they have consecrated oracles and images, and altars and temples, and portioned out a sacred domain for each of them.
A ten years' experience of sacrifices and dances, if extending to all particulars, will be quite sufficient; and if the legislator be alive they shall communicate with him, but if he be dead then the several officers shall refer the omissions which come under their notice to the guardians of the law, and correct them, until all is perfect; and from that time there shall be no more change, and they shall establish and use the new laws with the others which the legislator originally gave them, and of which they are never, if they can help, to change aught; or, if some necessity overtakes them, the magistrates must be called into counsel, and the whole people, and they must go to all the oracles of the Gods; and if they are all agreed, in that case they may make the change, but if they are not agreed, by no manner of means, and any one who dissents shall prevail, as the law ordains.
ATHENIAN: Next, with the help of the Delphian oracle, we have to institute festivals and make laws about them, and to determine what sacrifices will be for the good of the city, and to what Gods they shall be offered; but when they shall be offered, and how often, may be partly regulated by us.
But shall this new word of ours, like an oracle of God, be only spoken, and get away without giving any explanation or verification of itself?
When information has been received the city shall send to Delphi, and, whatever the God answers about the money and the remover of the money, that the city shall do in obedience to the oracle; the informer, if he be a freeman, shall have the honour of doing rightly, and he who informs not, the dishonour of doing wrongly; and if he be a slave who gives information, let him be freed, as he ought to be, by the state, which shall give his master the price of him; but if he do not inform he shall be punished with death.
ATHENIAN: O my friends, we will say to them, hard is it for you, who are creatures of a day, to know what is yours—hard too, as the Delphic oracle says, to know yourselves at this hour.
And boys near the bier and in front of it shall sing their national hymn, and maidens shall follow behind, and with them the women who have passed the age of child-bearing; next, although they are interdicted from other burials, let priests and priestesses follow, unless the Pythian oracle forbid them; for this burial is free from pollution.
In Atlantis, sanctuaries known as Oracles existed.
Mars Oracle
Saturn Oracle
Jupiter Oracle
Venus Oracle
Sun Oracle
The Sun Oracle was the most exalted.
Atlantean Oracles: Centers of planetary spiritual knowledge
Delphi Oracle: It often announced the spiritual ascension of Greek heroes, revealing ancient knowledge about reincarnation and spiritual evolution.
An oracle declared that the only way to appease Poseidon and save the kingdom was to sacrifice Andromeda to the monster.
For instance, those who have translated accounts of oracles, angelic voices, and prophecies
Delphi was also home to the Oracle of Delphi, a famed figure in classical Greek mythology.
When the center was Delos,Thebes and Izmir lay on the circumference; when the center was Paros, it was Knossos andChalcis; when the center was Sparta, Mycenae and the oracle site of Trofonion were on thecircumference.
Prompted by Galerius, his junior co-ruler, and the oracle of Apollo at Didyma, Diocletian issued the first edict on February 23, AD 303, coinciding with the festival of Terminalia.
For, by the inspirations of the angels of your*** God, the individual entity of a mortal is directed in its normal growth; but by the angels of the first resurrection, mortals are used abnormally, by entrancement, by miracles, or by sar'gis, oracles or otherwise.
It is the will and wish of your*** God, that all men become constitutionally capable of receiving and comprehending the highest light, and that they should no longer depend upon any priest, church, oracle or holy book, or upon consulting the spirits.
Was it not the consulting of the oracles that destroyed Vind'yu (India), Socatta, Fonece (Phoenecia), Persia, Ghem and Greece?
I made you**** Lords of my Holy Council; I drove away from the earth a thousand false Lords, and broke up the oracle-houses of mortals.
And now was God's attention directed to the Hebrews, the Faithists of western Arabin'ya, where the God Baal had gained access and power; having affiliated with one, Dagon, a false God, located in those regions, who maintained six earthly oracle-houses and a small heavenly kingdom of his own.
Mine eyes behold the true Faithists with colleges and with books of learning; but, as for the others, they are becoming consulters of the oracles (spirits), the same as the heathens.
Take you heed, O Jerub, of the words of your*** God; and whilst Baal and Ashtaroth are in conflict and neglectful of the temples and oracles, possess you them.
I will possess the oracles and direct Cyrus to march against Parsi'e.
Belus should be mine, and the cities and temples of Hina and Maroth [Heliopolis and Bubastis] and Hovan and Torres and Delfi; and the habitations of Phires and Simak [Phrygia] and Macedon and Thues [Corinth], and the great oracle-houses of Myrsilus and Myrsus and Gyges and Candawles and Haerkus [Clazomenae] and Simon [Miletus] and Gamma [Minerva] and Fabiyan [Arion] and Sulus [Atys] and Craz'ya [Croesus] and Wakadya [Juno] and P'hrid [Phrygia] and Gemnae [Busiris] and Ma'zan and R'hodae.
And, after Xerxes hath despoiled and conquered all the earth regions, Baal and all other Gods should be driven away from the oracles and temples.
And, since, in those days, the kings and rich men in all those countries consulted the spirits [oracles and pythians], in reference to all important undertakings, it was not a difficult feat for Ashtaroth to obsess the millions of Parsi'e'ans to carry out her project.
Go you**** down to the earth, to Vind'yu, and possess the temples of spirit communion, the oracle houses and whatever places mortals come to worship in, and these places should be yours.
Now there had been bloody times in Vind'yu for four hundred years; during which time a warring sect, who falsely called themselves Brahmins, had overrun the land with sword and spear, lance and fire, destroying temples, oracles and languages.
And it came to pass that the priests and magicians of Brahma sought to condemn Sakaya, saying: The oracles and the spirits of the dead declare, his words are not true words.
And his angel hosts under Yima, who descended to the earth, inspired mortals, both through the oracles and by direct contact, to call Sakaya, Budha, and Budha, Sakaya.
And you should possess the oracles, and by all possible means establish me amongst mortals, as well as in Vind'yu and Chine'ya.
And the angels of Looeamong obtained Jerusalem and Athena, besides two hundred small cities with their oracle-houses and temples also.
And Looeamong's angel warriors took possession of them, so they could answer the oracles, the magicians and priests, in their own way.
Or, whether my angel hosts speak to the oracles or to persons capable of hearing spirits, and say to them: Fight ye for the Holy Ghost, or fight you**** for the Creative element, mortals heed us not.
Bring your Gods, and let the oracles tell us what they say.
And he broke up six hundred and eighty oracle-houses and temples, used for consulting the spirits, who called themselves Gods, whose only service was to advise on war, conquest and destruction.
And, in fact, it was the final termination of the earthly Gods that ruled over mortals through oracles and pagan practices.
God said: Sufficient unto a time is the work of Jehovih; because the Triunes over threw the oracles and hundreds of false Gods and hundreds of sacred books full of error and evil, behold they fulfilled their time.
But you didst further exact of him the destroying of idol worship amongst mortals, and the destroying of the oracle-temples for consulting spirits, re-promising him, that when he had fulfilled these things, you wouldst give unto him the promised heavenly kingdom.
Forget not, that ere our heavenly kingdoms were established, the earth was covered over in many places with oracles and temples used to consult the spirits.
You hast appropriated those, that labored for their own glory, to sweep from off the earth and her heavens, oracle worship and idolatry; and these curses should return not again forever.
Only on the tripod should the oracle proclaim.
The origin of the term Aham, the language of oracles.
Let my prophets prove themselves by the sacred star, and they should sit on the K'Sam and be oracles in my kingdom.
The spirits who ministered at the oracle manifested Su'tau, and there was no reason in them.
He sent emissaries (spirits) to the temples and oracles of India, for over a thousand years, and thus compelled mortals to worship him.
The Lords of atmospherea ministering through the temples and oracles to mortals of the Hyan period, and embraced in Mithra inspiration, were as follow: Maidhyozaremaya, Moidhyosheema, Paitis-hahaya, Ayathrecma, Maidhyairya, Hamacpathmoedaya, the Holy Lordess, the Gatha-Ahunavaiti, Yacna-Haptan-haiti, the Goddess Mother, Gatha-Ustavaiti, her Holy Sister, Goddess Gatha-Cpenta-Mainyu, her Holy Daughter, Goddess Gatha-Vohu-Khsha-thra, the Lord of Measure, Airyama, Fshnsha-manthea, Hadhaokhta, Creator, Ever Present Spirit in all places, Ruler over all else and Dispenser.
The Haptans did not worship the Lords nor Gods, but revered them as exalted spirits sent from etherea, to minister to mortals, both through the temples and oracles, and in the family spirit circle, even as Christians of this day believe that Christ minister'''.
In addition to the sciences this Lord God, through oracles and otherwise, revealed two hundred and seventy kingdoms in the lower heavens, the most important of which are: Zairi-vairi, Yukhata-vairi, Crisookhshau, Kerecaokhshan, Vyarez, Vanara, Bujicravo, Berejzarsti, Tizhyarsti, Perethwarsu, Vezhyarsti, Naptva, Vazhacpa, Habacpa, Victavaru and Frans-hanm-vareta.
She had twelve hundred Goddesses under her, and they were allotted one day in each month to speak and teach through the magicians and oracles and prophets and high priests.
The Lords and Saviors, through the oracles, inspired the kings and rulers to despoil the Zarathustrians.
Ashtaroth, cunning Goddess, flew suddenly down to the earth, to the mortal king of Egupt, Pharaoh, and through the oracle proclaimed:
Then Pharaoh, distracted by the flood of miracles and the superabundance of the spirits of the dead strolling over all of Egupt, embraced the oracle's fearful decrees.
The one deny all Gods, and even the person of the Creator; the other become a runner after the spirits of the dead, consulting seers and oracles.
When the king consulted the oracle, behold, the angels of Jehovih had possession, and they answered the king, saying: Put your* wife away in a dark chamber for nine months, and she will deliver into your* hand a male child, who should save the crown from your*** brother's child.
Nevertheless, she also went to consult the oracle, and to her the angel of Jehovih said: Have not kings killed their wives in order to obtain one who should have an heir to the throne?
When Yokovrana went to the temple to do sacrifice, the high priest besought him to consult the oracle in reference to the child, and for his kingdom's sake.
And he so consulted the oracle, and the angels of Ormazd said unto him: O king, you, before whom all people fear, hear you the angels of heaven and be wise, for your* kingdom's sake, and for Capilya.
The king said: Why do the oracles tell lies?
I asked the priest in the oracle-house the same thing, and he said: For a dying man to have faith that his soul will enter paradise.
I have searched the spirits of the dead, and the Gods of the oracles, and they are lies, lies, lies!
Last night I consulted the oracle as to the matter, for I saw that your*** mandate must be fulfilled.
The king said: And what said the oracle?
And the oracles of the Eguptians prophesied that when the Israelites were once out of the country they would unite with the kingdoms whereto Moses had been embassador, and then return and overpower the Eguptians.
The king said: Everywhere the oracles declare against you* and Jehovih; saying thou art in the hands of evil spirits.
Moses said: What are the oracles to me?
To feel assured one is in a good work; this is better than oracles.7 See Book of Exodus, Ezra Bible, chap.
The Gods of the Eguptians were not idle, and they sent word by way of the oracles to the courtiers and nobles to the effect that Moses had persuaded the king to hand the kingdom over to the foreign nations, knowing the king had no son eligible to the throne.
You art outlawed by men and accursed by the oracles.
For I have miracles also; and whatsoever your*** magicians can do, that can I do also; have I not eyes and ears, even as the oracles?
Pharaoh said: If the oracle hear God, is not this the greatest?
After this the Israelites passed through Etham, on the borders of the wilderness, and thence toward Migdol, near Baal-zephon, the place of the oracle of the God, Baal, and they encamped before Pi'hahiroth, where Moses commanded them to remain some days to rest.
To do which ye should use the oracles, or prophets and seers, or magicians, or inspiration; and you**** should set the kings and queens of the earth to war upon them, and spare them not, man, woman or child.
The earth near''' her greatest corporeal growth, and these self-assuming Gods should build monuments through their mortal emissaries, in the greatest divisions of the earth: Temples, and pyramids, and oracle-palaces, which should stand thousands of years as testimonies of the audacity of Gods and Saviors.
And when you* are come down to the earth, you* should possess yourselves of the oracles and places of worship, driving hence all other angels, and Gods, and Lords, and familiars.
And whether you* reach a king of the earth by means of the oracles, or through prophets and seers, or by obsession, it matter''' not; but you* should come to him by some means, either when he lie asleep or is awake, and you**** should inspire him with the doctrines and the love of the Lord your God.
Baal said: To overturn the oracles of Jehovih, and to make the prophets and seers receive and announce your*** name, O De'yus, you Lord God of heaven and earth, have I already sworn more than ten thousand oaths.
And these again, through the rab'bahs and the oracles, had spread abroad amongst mortals the threatened dangers, cautioning them.
What care I for the altars and temples and oracles and arcs?
Some hurried off to the rab'bahs, some to the oracles and temples, to inquire about the trouble between the ruling Gods.
Abandon you* the altars and arcs and temples and oracles, and all the strongest, most zealous Faithists, for the present.
The cities were filled with mills, and factories, and colleges, and common schools, free for all people to come and learn; and altars, and temples of worship, and oracle structures, made without windows, so Jehovih's angels could come in sar'gis and teach His Holy Doctrines.
Many rushed forth to the oracles and altars to learn the cause, and to know if, in truth, the angels of heaven were at war; if God had come, as had been told in the old legends, to afflict mortals.
And they were, for the most part, easily persuaded to follow angel advice, and so fell to work and built temples, and established oracles of their own; obliterating the doctrine of the Great Spirit, and substituting the words: The Lord God, and De'yus, and Anubi, his holy Son and Savior and Judge of the world; and Osiris, God's commanding Lord of the earth.
And Osiris, and Baal, and Ashtaroth, through their angel hosts, chose from amongst mortals the largest and strongest, most war-like, and by means of the oracles, declared them kings and queens, and instructed them in building palaces and having thrones, after the manner of Lords and Gods.
Anuhasaj, alias the Lord God, had said to Te-in, the false, to whom he gave in charge Jaffeth and her heavenly places: In the self same time that Osiris and his hosts fall upon the divisions of the earth, even in that day and hour should you and your*** hosts fall upon Jaffeth (China), possessing the temples and altars, and places of oracles, where they serve the Great Spirit under the name Ormazd, and you should subdue them to me under the name Joss, who is and ever should be Ho-Joss8 of heaven and earth.
And even as Osiris plunged into the temples and oracle-houses, and about the altars, in the dead of night, to drive away Jehovih's guardian angels, so, like him, and even worse, Te-in was baffled and repulsed, and saw the morning sun arise upon his shame in total failure.
To him, even as to Osiris, De'yus sent word to next attack the houses of the men of learning, the unbelievers; and the ignorant, the superstitious; to abandon, for the present, the arcs, and temples, and oracle-houses, and the Faithists, firmly sworn.
For he permitted not his army, his thousand millions, to rush on for the places of worship and for the oracle-houses.
In the Sun Kingdom dwelt men and women of learning, and they had tablets and books and maps relating to heaven and earth, which books, maps, and tablets were kept in a library, the summit of which building was used as an oracle for consulting with the spirits, called Lords of heaven.
Now, no matter what wars took place, the library, the temple of the oracle and the Æjin were sacred, and never suffered harm even between enemies.
But men of learning came not to Brahma; neither came the priests, nor kings, nor magicians, nor consulters of oracles.
And when they were thus prepared, and started on their journey, which would require seven days, the king bethought him to inquire of the oracle as to his best mode of success.
Now the angel of God had taken possession of the oracle, and yet the magi knew it not, nor did Syaythaha.
The king was pleased with this, and he fulfilled all that was commanded of the oracle; and when he came near Brahma's camp, a man came before the king's servant, saying: Behold, O king, command me as you wilt!
Brahma said unto the king: Here stand the angel of Ormazd, and the angel saith you are the king in disguise, and, moreover, that he, the angel, command you* here for this purpose, saying to you* in the oracle: He that hath become one with Ormazd is mightier than an army!
And within Giloff dwelt the Osheowena, the oracle of the Creator, for two thousand years.
The angels also taught man to make pots and kettles; to burn the clay in suitable shape; to find copper ore and silver ore, and gold and lead for the floors of the oracle chambers, clean and white shining, suitable for angels.
And I'tura, wise in wickedness, said: Go to the temples, the places of shining copper and silver, to the oracles, and obsess them, every one.
The Lord provided unto the inhabitants of the earth, oracle houses, wherein the Lord could speak face to face with mortals; through his angels, chosen for this purpose, did the Lord thus teach mortals.
So that when kings or queens came to consult the oracle on matters of war or personal aggrandizement, my hosts answered them not to their own profit, but with the voice of Jehovih.
The Oracle of Delphi was one of ancient Greece's most significant religious institutions, known for its prophetic insights and deep spiritual authority.
Located at Delphi, a sanctuary on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, the oracle played a central role in Greek religious life for over a millennium, attracting individuals and city-states seeking divine guidance.
Delphi was regarded as the most important oracle in ancient Greece.
The Pythia was a key figure in delivering the oracle’s messages.
According to Greek mythology, Apollo chose Delphi as the site for his oracle after defeating a Python, a serpent or dragon that guarded the area.
Consultation Process: Consultation of the oracle involved several steps.
The Oracle of Delphi was significant not only for its religious impact but also for its political influence.
Leaders like Croesus of Lydia and the Spartans famously consulted the oracle before making critical decisions.
Some of the best-known prophecies include the prediction to King Croesus that if he attacked Persia, he would destroy a great empire—an example of the oracle's often ambiguous language since it turned out Croesus destroyed his own empire.
Emperors like Hadrian paid visits, and even Nero consulted the oracle.
The oracle's power significantly declined with the rise of Christianity in the Roman Empire.
By the end of the 4th century CE, Emperor Theodosius ordered the closure of pagan temples, and Delphi’s oracle was eventually abandoned.
The legacy of the Oracle of Delphi is far-reaching, inspiring myths, literature, and philosophical thought throughout Western culture.
The Oracle of Delphi, dedicated to Apollo, was a revered religious institution in ancient Greece.
Initially, it was believed that Apollo inhabited the laurel tree, offering oracles through the rustling of its leaves.
The Thriae, three winged sisters from Mount Parnassus, were said to have taught Apollo the art of divination, previously practiced at a local oracle that used lots for prophecy.
Over time, three distinct oracles operated in Delphi:
Chthonion Oracle: Involved egkoimisi, a practice where people slept in a sacred space to receive visions.
Apollonian Oracle: Utilized the laurel tree, with the Pythia serving as the intermediary after the Dionysian cult was introduced.
Besides the Pythia, the oracle was managed by priests of Apollo and other officials called hosioi and prophētai.
The oracle thus operated during the nine warmest months, starting in spring.
These were believed to guide the actions of those consulting the oracle.
The oracle influenced major Greek undertakings, such as expeditions and colony foundations.
However, with the rise of Christianity, the oracle's role declined as Christian leaders considered the oracle to be influenced by demons.
Despite this, the Oracle of Delphi remained a central and authoritative religious institution in Greek antiquity, its influence reaching deeply into political, cultural, and personal decision-making across the Greek world.
Role: Sometimes referred to as a Pythia or associated with the oracle.
She served as a Pythia during Hadrian’s time, a period when the oracle continued to be consulted, although its influence had already begun to wane.
Herodotus and the Oracle of DelphiSchwartz recounts a historical example from Herodotus.
King Croesus of Lydia consulted the Oracle of Delphi using a double-blind method to gain insights about future events.
The Oracle accurately described Croesus' actions on a specific day, demonstrating a form of remote viewing.
Deucalion and Pyrrha, at the advice of an oracle, repopulated the world by throwing "your mother's bones" (stones) behind them; each stone became a person.
The vocal statues and oracles of Egypt and Greece were duplicated in America.
was an idol which answered questions and became famous as an oracle.
Isaiah 23 (The Oracle Against Tyre): Tyre, a wealthy island city-state known for its trade and influence, could be seen as a historical counterpart to Atlantis.
"The oracle concerning Tyre.
According to the myth, King Laius of Thebes, having been warned by an oracle that his son would kill him and marry his wife, ordered that the newborn Oedipus be abandoned on Mount Cithaeron to die.
Delphi was home to the Oracle of Delphi, one of the most important religious sites in ancient Greece, where the priestess Pythia delivered prophecies inspired by Apollo.
They were instructed by an oracle to repopulate the earth by throwing stones over their shoulders, which transformed into people.
The Oracle of Delphi, situated on the slopes of Mount Parnassus, played a crucial role in Greek history.
Leaders and individuals from all over the ancient world sought the oracle’s guidance on matters of state, war, and personal affairs.
The oracle's pronouncements were often enigmatic and required interpretation, but they were held in high regard and could influence major decisions and events.
The Oracle of DionysusOne of the most intriguing legends associated with Mount Pangaion is the existence of an oracle dedicated to Dionysus.
According to ancient sources, this oracle was one of the few dedicated to the god of wine, offering prophecies to those who sought them.
The priests of this oracle were believed to be able to enter a state of divine frenzy, during which they would deliver messages from the god.
While the exact location of this oracle is not known, it is believed to have been somewhere on the slopes of Mount Pangaion.