Urim and Thummim (in Hebrew Urim VeTumim, אורים ותמים, Tiberian Hebrew ʾÛrîm wəṮummîm, Standard Hebrew אורים ותומים Urim vəTummim; Arabic اوريم وتميم Ūrīm waṮummīm) — typically translated as "lights and perfections" or "revelation and truth" — were a divination medium or process used by ancient Hebrews (usually Israelites) in revealing the will of God on a contested point of view or other problem. Also used to translate ancient manuscripts ...

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A Christian theological definition of Urim and Thummim according to CARM - The Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

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Urim and Thummim were placed in the breastplate of the high priest (Ex. 28: 30) and were used as a means of communication with God. They mean "light" and "perfection". Unfortunately, they are not described anywhere in the Bible. Some theories maintain that they were twelve stones that made up part of the High Priest's garments. The process of the communication with God is not given either.

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Because the words Urim and Thummim are plural and in most cases do not connote an object, the device or process could be referred to as Urim and Thummim rather than "the" Urim and Thummim (Hebrew האורים והתמים, Tiberian Hebrew hāʾÛrîm wəhatTummîm, Standard Hebrew האורים והתומים haʾUrim vəhaTummim; Arabic الاوريم و ...

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The Total Operations Processing System, better known by its initials TOPS, is a computer system for managing the locomotives and rolling stock (railroad cars) owned by a rail system. It was originally developed by the Southern Pacific Railroad and was widely sold; it is best known for its use by British Rail. TOPS - Early development. In the early 1960s the Southern Pacific Railroad, ahead of the pack in its embrace of technology, developed a computer system they named TOPS, which officially stood fo ...

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Cycling shorts are shorts designed for cycling. Historically cycling shorts have been made of black wool and had a leather chamois. Most modern cycling shorts are made of lycra and contain a synthetic chamois in the seat and crotch area. They are usually worn without underwear. The function of the chamois is to absorb moisture, thus preventing chaffing and rashes, thereby increasing a cyclist's comfort and endurance. ...

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With regard to living things, a body is the integral physical material of an individual, and contrasts with soul, personality and behavior. In some contexts, a superficial element of a body, such as hair may be regarded as not a part of it, even while attached. The same is true of excretable substances, such as stool, both while residing in the body and afterwards. Plants composed of more than one cell are ...

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"Body and Soul" is the title of a popular song written in 1930 by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton and John Green. It was introduced in the revue Three's A Crowd by Libby Holman. It was used as a soundtrack theme in the 1947 film. The song later became a jazz standard, with hundreds of versions performed and recorded by dozens of artists. By far the most famous of these is the take recorded by Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra on October 11, 1939 at their only reording session for Bluebird, a subsidiary of RCA Victor. Ha

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Urim (Hebrew, Jewish). See" Thummim". The" Urim and Thummim "originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. Thme (plural Thmin) means " Truth" in Hebrew. "

The Septuagint translates thummim, as Truth " (Bonwick). The late Mr. Proctor, the astronomer, shows the Jewish idea "derived directly from the Egyptians". But Philo Judeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were "the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate ", and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation.

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Thummim (Hebrew, Jewish). "Perfections." An ornament on the breastplates of the ancient High Priests of Judaism. Modern Rabbins and Hebraists may well pretend they do not know the joint purposes of the Thummim and the Urim; but the Kabbalists do and likewise the Occultists.

They were the instruments of magic divination and oracular communication -  theurgic and astrological. This is shown in the following well-known facts  -

(1) upon each of the twelve precious stones was engraved the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob, each of these "sons" personating one of the signs of the zodiac;

(2) both were oracular images, like the teraphim, and uttered oracles by a voice, and both were agents for hypnotisation and throwing the priests who wore them into an ecstatic condition.

The Urim and Thummim were not original with the Hebrews, but had been borrowed, like most of their other religious rites, from the Egyptians, with whom the mystic scarabeus worn on the breast by the Hierophants, had the same functions. They were thus purely heathen and magical modes of divination ; and when the Jewish "Lord God" was called upon to manifest his presence and speak out his will through the Urim by preliminary incantations, the modus operandi was the same as that used by all the Gentile priests the world over.

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Urim (Hebrew) [plural 'ur light, flame, revelation, illumination from the verbal root 'arar to curse]

Lights; the 'urim and tummim [plural of tom fullness, wholeness, complete truth]

of the Hebrews are said to have been placed in the breastplate of judgment of the high priest (Ex 28:30), the guilt or innocence of a person being judged by means of the urim and thummim. Some writers believe them to have been small tablets of wood or of bone.

"The 'Urim and Thummim' originated in Egypt, and symbolized the Two Truths, the two figures of Ra and Thmei being engraved on the breastplate of the Hierophant and worn by him during the initiation ceremonies. Diodorus adds that this necklace of gold and precious stones was worn by the High Priest when delivering judgment. . . . Philo Judaeus affirms that Urim and Thummim were 'the two small images of Revelation and Truth, put between the double folds of the breastplate,' and passes over the latter, with its twelve stones typifying the twelve signs of the Zodiac, without explanation" (TG 355-6).

The breastplate and the physical appurtenances were but emblems, much as a ring worn on the finger is an emblem of cycling time re-entering itself, of eternity, and therefore of utter stability, which is equivalent to abstract truth and reality. These physical appurtenances are of small moment, quite as much so as was the sapphire image worn as the symbol of truth by the high judges of the Egyptians. The 'urim and tummim among the Jews were mere emblems of initiation, whereby the adept came to know light or revelation, and consequently the fullness of truth, and because of this was enabled to interpret properly the secrets of the universe, and to give proper answers often in a prophetic manner or as prophecy of what might come before him. In later times among the Jews, as indeed in other nations, the emblems occupied nearly all the attention of students and the inner significance of nearly all these emblems was lost.

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In historic Mormonism, a seer stone is a stone or crystal used by a prophet for receiving revelation from God. Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Christ/Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints reported that in 1827, in response to prayer, he was visited by an angel who revealed the location of a set of ancient records engraved on gold plates, buried on a hillside. He followed the directions to the location, and located a st ...

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Urimancy

Divination by the observation of urine, either by its color, by its taste, by its flow patterns, or by the patterns formed when it hits the ground or in a swirling bowl.

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Thummim tummin (Hebrew) [from tom innocence, integrity, truth]

Truth, perfections; associated as an appurtenance with the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. In the casting of the Urim and Thummim, the latter showed a man's innocence (cf 1 Sam 14:41, where tamin is translated "lots"). The urim and thummim

"were the instruments of magic divination and oracular communication -- theurgic and astrological. This is shown in the following well-known facts: -- (1) upon each of the twelve precious stones was engraved the name of one of the twelve sons of Jacob, each of these 'sons' personating one of the signs of the zodiac; (2) both were oracular images, like the teraphim, and uttered oracles by a voice, and both were agents for hypnotisation and throwing the priests who wore them into an ecstatic condition. The Urim and Thummim were not original with the Hebrews, but had been borrowed, like most of their other religious rites, from the Egyptians, with whom the mystic scarabaeus, worm on the breast by the Hierophants, had the same functions. . . . when the Jewish 'Lord God was called upon to manifest his presence and speak out his will through the Urim by preliminary incantations, the modus operandi was the same as that used by all the Gentile priests the world over" (TG 334).

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According to Joseph Smith, Jr. and his associates, Smith translated reformed Egyptian characters engraved on Golden Plates into English through various means including the use of an ancient device called the Urim and Thummim which, like the plates, were said to have been eventually returned to the angel named Moroni (or in one version, Moroni's prophet ancestor Nephi) who originally gave them to Smith. Only two possible examples of reformed Egyptian characters currently persist. Only the first is the subject of serious study. Refo ...

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