This is the last thread I'm going to start in the Real Magic series
(if anyone wants to do chapter nine, they are welcome). Tom has kindly
agreed to post his thoughts on 'The sacred path of the Warrior' in a
mini series to alt.magick.

Tom, now this read through is ending can you begin in the next few
days or at your convenience please?

I'm going to ignore Issac's irreverent potted descriptions of various
types of divination and associated woo-woo (a hilarious summation of
different types of fortune telling and it's application in social
situations may be found in "The bluffers guide to astrology and
fortune telling"). Rather I'm going to focus on Issac's take on Greek
history.

First with the roots of words. Everyone knows that the addition of
'ology' to a word means study of, but wherence 'mancy'? It shares it's
root with 'mania' from the word mantis, a 'seer' of hidden things,
past present or future.