El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-06-17

mote places He spoke several languages,
and was a man we'll past the half
century mark. He said palmistry and
astrology were great sciences; and for
both he felt respect and reverence. He
frequently consulted his horoscope in his
business affairs, and he found his knowl-
edge Of palmistry valuable as well.
Coming back from these lands, one of
the first items which caught my eye IN
an American newspaper was the raid
made upon the people engaged in occult
business in New York.
It sometimes seems that when the
police find life a little dull and mo-
notonons in New York they make a raid
on fortune telleTs. Without doubt this
class of people needs supervision.
Covering Many Sins.
We all know that the fortune teller's
sign sometimes covers multitude of
sins.
So does the sign of the masseur and
the manicure; but that does not Justify
wholesale slaughter of all people en-
gagged in these occupations. nor does It
Justify dragging them all into court to
prove their responsibility.
The business of predicting the futurt
for other people is uTwhOlesome. It
brings disaster in its train, as a rule.
1t cast Daniel into the lions den, even
though he escaped death by being an
animal tanner.
No one of us has a moral right to try
and peer into the future, and much less
have we the right to try and peer into
another's future. And yet there is no
sin so universally committed as this;
and the curiosity OF the race regarding
created the continual supply of fortune
tellers.
There is fascination in it which few
people are strong enough to resist; at
one time or another in life almost every
man and woman Yields to>the temptation
of consulting a fortune teller of some
order.
Pahnistry, astrology and phrenology
are. bv the unthinking or ignorant. fire.
auently classed with fortune telling.
But they are all diQnified sciences, based
on solid foundation of religious phil
osophy. Man is what he has made him.
self through countless ages by his
thoughts and acts. The spiritual essence
which Is the real man began TO take on
material form. and it has been reinear-
mated over and over, and each one of us
today represents the sum total OF former
lives.
The shape Of elr heads, the lines of
our hands, all are a cipher. telling the
story of past and present, and indicat-
ing what the immediate future will be,
unless we change it by win and work,
for good or Ill. Our horoscopes are an
other code, telling the same story in an
other way.
Field for Good.
There lies a great field for usefulness
and influence for good in these profess
sions, if those who follow them have the
right understanding of life.
The great mistake made by many
palmists and astrologers lies in giving
the impression that the hand and the
horoscope cannot be changed.
Gertrude De Bielski, an astrologer of
Boston. Mass, writes most earnestly on
that subject in the Occult Review. She
SAYS:
old maxim, so often quoted-that a
wise man rules his stars and the fool
obeyS them'-that astrOlogers interpret
the evil aspects as ruling a life OF an
epoch. and utterly fail to emphasize the
all important possibility of modifying or
overcoming those aspects, or of giving
any suggestions as to how this overcom-
ing is to be accomplished Moreover,
they often seem not to recognize the fact
that the aspects of the planets, more
than the nature of the planets, indicates
or at an epoch. and that these aspects
are the result of character, and as re-
suit. of character can be changed by an
effort of will consciously directed.
"The planets may indicate the law of
life. but they do not necessarily compel
the fulfilling of that law Their post
tions aid us to know that law and its
precise nature, and with the right knowl-
edge we can set up counter vibrations
within ourselves to change the character
of events; so it is character one must
control or change if one would control
the nature of circumstances.
Occult Side of 1t.
ct would make my letter too long
were I to give my views on heredIty
and the occult side of the science of
the stars, but in closing l may say that
in my opinion heredity is wholly of the
soul which is freighted with the law of
its own making. as it seeks manifesto