EVERYDAY ORACLES · LESSON 2 OF 9 · 12 MIN
Bibliomancy — Asking a Book
The Sortes Virgilianae, Augustine's "take up and read", the Church's ban on the lots of the saints, and how to ask a book well.
Bibliomancy is divination by book: you hold a question, open a book at random, and let your eye or finger fall on a passage. It needs nothing but a book you respect, and it has been practised for two thousand years.