We have records of men who seem to have moved beyond the mantic stage and who prepare the way for the great Prophets.
There is the same sort of relation between the soul and the mantic vapour as between the eye and light.
The mantic element is receptive of impressions and of anticipations by means of feelings, and without reasoning process (asyllogistos) it touches the future when it can get clear of the present.
Sidenote: The mantic art] The daemons are not slow to speak; it is we who are slow to hear.
We do not make Mantic either godless or void of reason, when we give it the soul of man as its material, and the enthusiastic spirit and exhalation as its tool or plectron.
No one has ever poured such satire upon the mantic arts as did Rabelais in chapter twenty-five of the third book of "Pantagruel.
A similarmantic prominence of birds appears in ancient Rome where the terms for the observation of birds (auspicium, augurium) came to signify 'omens' in general.
There is nothing peculiar in the office of soothsayer that accompanied the Dionysiac cult; mantic persons and procedures have formed a prominent part of the constitution of the lower peoples everywhere.
The magic smells of white and purple lilac were touched with a whiff of apple blossoms from the hill and beyond--below--the Mantic gleamed in the moonlight amid trees all a feathery, spring incrustation of minute green foliage.
