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"The second division of divination, as I said
before,1 is the natural; and it, according to the exact
teaching of physics, must be ascribed to divine
Nature, from which, as the wisest philosophers maintain, our souls have been drawn and poured forth.
And since the universe is wholly filled with the
Eternal Intelligence and the Divine Mind, it must
be that human souls are influenced by their contact
with divine souls. But when men are awake their
souls, as a rule, are subject to the demands of
everyday life and are withdrawn from divine association because they are hampered by the chains
of the flesh.
1 i. 18. 34.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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