MANTIQUE HUMAINE ET MANTIQUE DIVINE. LA CRITIQUE DES FORMES COMMUNES DE LA DIVINATION PAR JAMBLIQUE
HUMAN DIVINATION AND SACRED DIVINATION. IAMBLICHUS’S CRITICISM OF THE COMMON FORMS OF DIVINATION

Summary/Abstract: Concerned with an ethical and ontological model of man aimed at his fulfilment in divine perfection, Iamblichus criticizes the principal human forms of divination, in order to describe, as opposed to them, the authentic form of divination, namely sacred or divine divination. Its principle is the following: the knowledge of the cause and essence of becoming leads us to the knowledge of the future. The ability to make predictions about the future is only granted to the gods, because they have a universal knowledge, but the gods offer their power to men that are capable to participate in the divine. This sacred divination occurs only in theurgy, which ultimate goal is the union of the theurgist with divinity, and the authentic divination is the crowning of the theurgy.

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