IS THE PALM OF THE HAND A CHART OF LIFE

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 18 January 1905, Page 11

IS THE PALM OF THE HAND A CHART OF LIFE

Most chiromants adhere to th* theory of the anrient writers on the snbjeet—that which was believed by Aristotle and Plato, Galen and Ptolemy—that the p»lm of the hand Fs the natural horoscope of the individual: or as Eliphas Levi. the greatest of modern mystics, pat it. -Chiromancy U the art or reading the writing of the stars in the lines of the hands."' The mounts at the ends of the fingers represent the planets, and according to their development, and the markings on them of crosses, squares, lines, islands, and chains, the past and the fnture are read. The shape of the hands and fingers show the character. Those who. while admitting the trnth of palmistry, do not believe that the planets influence human destiny, urge the theorj that the MARKINGS OP THE HANDS are due to nerve currents coming from the brain through fibres that hare their termination in the palms; such fibres, by t.h« law of natural causation, tracing lines, etc.,, •which indicate the characteristics of the fndiriduaJ: his future actions being deduced from such characteristics —the future in other words being the outcome of the present-. Both schools laugh to scorn thoee i who, never having studied the subject, axe ; obligingly ready to explain, that the lines of the hands are caused merely by constantly closing them, and result from the occupation to which they axe put in daily i life. Overlooking the fact that in every I hand there a>-e lines and markings that nr. amount of closing or no kind of labour could cause, they are unaware that, as a rale, the hands of a labouring mat show only the primary lines of heart ajid. ; head, while those in other spheres of life show a tangle of lines corresponding to the complexity of their more sephisticatetl tivos. It may be added that new-born infants sometimes show on their hands very complex markings, indicating the troubled paths they are fated to tread in their life's journey. It there ie anyone left who Is not con--1 vineed that the story of his past and his future is written in his hand, it lies within his power to test it for himself by consulting a chiromant qualified by study and experience to read it. Palmists waose confidence in themselves is only equalled by their Ignorance of the subject are innumerable. Their ACTIVITIES ABE IMMENSELY SUCCESSFUL in bringing palmistry into disrepnt*\ It should be fcnown that palmistry can only shoTc the chief events in a life—marriage, illnesses, death, accidents, good or evil periods, journeys of importance, together with the approximate date on which they will, or have happened. Such details as initials. names, etc., which are often corrci-rly given by palmists, are entirely due to thougiu-readiuß when they refer to the past, as they generally do; when they deal with the future, and are subsequently verified, then such details are due to that mysterious power of the mind called clairvoyance or second sight, of which little is known at present, but whose possession 9eems limited to the Celtic races. —From "T.r.'s Weekly."