{"collection":"Ordo Templi Orientis","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib96_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib96_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_oto_lib96_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/oto/lib96.htm","summary":"This is a practical handbook on geomancy \u2014 the divinatory art of generating figures from random dot-marks \u2014 issued under the authority of the A\u2234A\u2234, Aleister Crowley's magical order, in the early twentieth century. Its core content is a reference system of sixteen geomantic figures, each assigned to a zodiac sign, element, sex, planetary ruler, angelic genius, and planetary intelligence, followed by step-by-step instructions for casting a full geomantic chart: generating four \"Mothers\" from random lines, deriving Daughters, Nephews, Witnesses, a Judge, a Reconciler, and a Part of Fortune. The work then provides interpretation tables correlating paired Witness-Judge figure combinations against ten domains of inquiry \u2014 health, money, rank, property, marriage, sex of a child, illness, imprisonment, travel, and lost objects \u2014 giving verdicts from \"Good\" to \"Evil\" or specific outcomes. A notable tension runs through the text: its prefatory Zoroastrian epigraph explicitly condemns divination by birds and entrails as \"mere toys\" and \"mercenary fraud,\" yet the handbook itself is an earnest technical manual for a comparable predictive practice. The editors openly state they have introduced deliberate errors and omissions to protect the material from misuse, with correct methods to be communicated only to vetted students \u2014 framing the printed text as an intentionally incomplete transmission. It sits squarely in the Western esoteric tradition of ceremonial magic, drawing on medieval Arabic-European geomancy while embedding it in a Thelemic ritual framework.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"A HANDBOOK OF GEOMANCY","tradition":"Ordo Templi Orientis","translated_text":null,"word_count":11533}