Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1889-08-21
CHARACTER IN HANDS
THE OCCULT ART or PALMIsTRy
NOW a SERIOUS STUDY.

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Chirp,~yehometry II the technsecl name
for pAlmistry. or the reading OF ones indi-
vliual characteristics from an examination
and an Interpretation Of the hands PALMS
try Is cider t.iau sculpture, painting or nitdi-
cine. IL Is oI,ier than history itself, for In
the tinrr,est traditions VI the remotsst past
there are distinct illusions TO the oravest
warriors ami the grandsst kings consulting
the priestly painister. as an oracle whs-e
mystic messages were Of the most sacred
character ami. hence, Of the greatest i'm
p.lrtatscs, ps.iinistry is an art with phiio-
s1phicai basis, a scientific Justification and
practically Useful application 1t Is a philo-
sophie in its principles ~ Is any theory u
the uniou and relationship Of the human soul
and buiy 1t is a. scientific in its founda-
tons methods and results painting, music
or rne,iicine, for the technique IN these de
parturaits is scientific, while the practical
application Is always an art In common
with medicine, ls.lili.rry has human anatomy
for a scientific bisis. and in common with
painting. eoiors ami shades are all Important
factors; while form - as much essential as
it is In sculpture ialmistry, therefore, 10
be at all successful must, ike sculpture
painting, medicine or music, have an artistic
application OF Its philosophical theories and
scientific foundations and methods
WHAT PALNIsTRY is
Any one Of ordinary mental capacity can
learn the science and understand be puilcs-
ophy of palmistry. In its practical use,
however, the artistic ability Of the palmister
Is that which gives charm en- tertainuent
and usefulness The philosophical basis Of
palmistry Is the doctrine that the soul creates
the body for itself, and that the body is
naturally a good, exact, easy and well fitting
suit Of material clothing for the spiritual
soul The body is, therefore, in the likeness
OF the soul within it, because the only pecu-
liarities Of the body are those impaired to it
or impressed upon it oy the indwelling soul,
which has developed the body for its habita-
ton, convenience and use.
Then IL is an old and sacred occult maxim
hat all the powers of the man are csatered
In the hand-or represented by the hand
The conclusion is, therefore, that the hand
Is to him who can translate its divine hero
slyphics. the likeness and the representative
If the soul The scientific foundations of
9ainiistry, like all other scientific bases, con.
,ist III the agreed upon results OF many care
full examinations aud the more or less exact
verifcati of the theories above stated
VIXEN put to the test of practical application
Palnistry, then, practically, is the transla-
Ion OF manual peculiarities into mental
characteristics, and far the palrnist is
accomplished in his art, can read from the
hand, Of his client his Tor herr physical
peculiarities, temperament, appetites pas
ions, impulses, aspirations, mental endow
nents, character and tendencies
The palmister does not suppose or teach
hat the character Is dependent upon the pe
culiarites Of the hand, any more than that
tine time OF day depends upon the position Of
the hands OF the clock, but that just the
hands of Il good clock indicate the time Of
day SO does the peculiarity Of the hands in
dictate the character of the individual. A
man Is not mechanic or d musician on &C
count OF any peculiar shape or size of his
hands, but being Of any definite character
mentally man is provided with hands which
are the best adapted to fully and promptly
give expression to his special abilities
The term palmistry is somewhat mislead-
ing, for it gives rise to the common mista&e
that the art Is confined to an examination of
the pain aud the lines therein found, where
as the fact that every popularity of the
entire hand is considered by the intelligent
hand reader
GYPSY FORTUNE TELLERs
Palmistry, as practiced principally by the
gypsies and even less perfectly by few I'M
principled misguided pr tenders, u
means of fortune telling has never been rec
ognized by intelligent artists as other than
pastime or a harmless delusion, and at the
present day the art is used almost entirely in
delineation of character, while the fortune
telling feature is left to the ignorant. the
curious and the superstitious. 1t must not
be inferred from this that the fortune telling
palmists and especially the gypsies, read the
hand at hazard. This would be very far from
the truth, for nearly every one who pays any
attention to this line of the art works in &C
cordance with more or less definite rules, 50
that any fairly experienced palmist-even
though mistaken-would read substantially
the same fortune from the same pair Of hands
at different times -not from memory of the
hands, but from the application Of whatever
rules he might be in the habit of using. More
than this, any number OF well instructed
gypsies would read substantially the same
fortune from any pair of hands, within a few
days Of each other, without any consultation
or collision with each other.
No one has two hands alike. The left hand
that is, the less active hand-shows more
nearly than the right hand ones natural or
inherited peculiarities, while the right hand,
or the one more active, always exhibits more
fully the acquired characteristics. This diff
ference in hands, which is universal. informs
the palnist as to which way the man or
woman is growing. and is therefore one Of
the keys 10y which to unlock many Of the less
easily solved mysteries Of the soul Hands
differ indefinitely in size ranging from the
extremes of large and small, and this differ
ence extends to the three dimensions, SO that
hands may he anywhere from long to short,
from broad to narrow and from thick to
thin, and usually each pair Of hauls differ
one from the other in these three particulars.
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