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{{CTD article
|term=Manticism
|person=No
|variations=Mantic Frenzy
|description=During this state was developed the gift of prophecy. The two words are nearly synonymous. One was as honoured as the other. Pythagoras and Plato held it in high esteem, and Socrates advised his disciples to study Manticism. The Church Fathers, who condemned so severely the ''mantic frenzy ''in Pagan priests and Pythiæ, were not above applying it to their own uses. The Montanists, who took their name from Montanus, a bishop of Phrygia, who was considered divinely inspired, contended with the '''mavnteiz '''(manteis) or prophets. “Tertullian, Augustine, and the martyrs of Carthage, were of the number”, says the author of ''Prophecy, Ancient and Modern. ''“The Montanists seem to have resembled the ''Bacchantes ''in the wild enthusiasm that characterized their orgies,” he adds. There is a diversity of opinion as to the origin of the word ''Manticism''. There was the famous Mantis the Seer, in the days of Melampus and Prœtus King of Argos; and there was Manto, the daughter of the prophet of Thebes, herself a prophetess. Cicero describes prophecy and mantic frenzy, by saying, that “in the inner recesses of the mind is divine prophecy hidden and confined, a divine impulse, which when it burns more vividly is called furor”, frenzy. (''Isis Unveiled''.) {{ctd-source|TG}}.
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|term=Manticism
|person=No
|variations=Mantic Frenzy
|description=During this state was developed the gift of prophecy. The two words are nearly synonymous. One was as honoured as the other. Pythagoras and Plato held it in high esteem, and Socrates advised his disciples to study Manticism. The Church Fathers, who condemned so severely the ''mantic frenzy ''in Pagan priests and Pythiæ, were not above applying it to their own uses. The Montanists, who took their name from Montanus, a bishop of Phrygia, who was considered divinely inspired, contended with the '''mavnteiz '''(manteis) or prophets. “Tertullian, Augustine, and the martyrs of Carthage, were of the number”, says the author of ''Prophecy, Ancient and Modern. ''“The Montanists seem to have resembled the ''Bacchantes ''in the wild enthusiasm that characterized their orgies,” he adds. There is a diversity of opinion as to the origin of the word ''Manticism''. There was the famous Mantis the Seer, in the days of Melampus and Prœtus King of Argos; and there was Manto, the daughter of the prophet of Thebes, herself a prophetess. Cicero describes prophecy and mantic frenzy, by saying, that “in the inner recesses of the mind is divine prophecy hidden and confined, a divine impulse, which when it burns more vividly is called furor”, frenzy. (''Isis Unveiled''.) {{ctd-source|TG}}.
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