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    Chiromancy - A Classic Article on Palm Reading
    Chiromancy - A Classic Article on Palm Reading
    Chiromancy - A Classic Article on Palm Reading
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    Chiromancy - A Classic Article on Palm Reading

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    A republication of the 1897 edition. The illustrated contents deal with all aspects of the fascinating art, history and science of palm reading.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateAug 26, 2016
    ISBN9781473357341
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      Chiromancy - A Classic Article on Palm Reading - Anon

      CHIROMANCY

      I

      GENERAL

      WE shall in the one word Chiromancy include chirognomony, invented by Captain d’Arpentigny, which is morphological physiognomony applied to the hand (therefore dealing only with its outward shape), chirology, expression preferred by Mr. Rem and the scientifics because it excludes all idea of occultism, and finally chiromancy properly so-called, the good old chiromancy which studies in the hand the astral sign-manual, in which Desbarolles believed, that great master of an art which it is possible to modernise without depreciating its ancestors. And we shall keep this word sacred, just because it takes into account occultism without the enlivening of which the science of the hand appears to us incomplete.

      The hand is the movement; the movement is the word; the word is the soul; the soul is man. Let us sum up the whole in these words: the soul of man is in his hand. Chiromancy is the art of divining the soul of a person and his fate by examining his hand.

      Chiromancy corroborates the astrological and the physiognomonic data. It is easy to see the interest of this triple consultation, each one being like a physician who gives his opinion. An average is struck from these which has a great likelihood of being a precious and definite information from which by deduction it is possible to form a view as to the future of the person interested.

      It always remains understood that free will is able to modify the natural inclination written in the horoscope, in the features of the face, in the lines of the hand.

      But, it will be asked, have these lines really any evidential value. And first of all are they not simply formed by manual work? In no way, seeing that in the working classes, where they ought to be very marked, they are but slight, and much less marked than in people who lead a more intense intellectual life. Further, they exist in a young child, even in a new born baby who has hardly had time to make many movements. Further yet, paralysis leads to their disappearance.¹ Therefore let us say it firmly:—The lines of the hand correspond to the vitality of the individual. We shall see presently that they also correspond to his temperament and its consequences.

      Desbarolles, whom we have just mentioned, with the conscience of a great honest man and his indubitable genius of perspicacity studied for many long years the physiological problem presented by these lines. He suggests a scientific explanation of the phenomenon by the animal electricity which is contained in the corpuscles discovered by Pacini which are found in every hand, especially in the palm, the mounts and the tips of the fingers. These reservoirs, he thinks, endow us with an extraordinary sensitiveness which remains in relation with the brain, with all the other senses, with the whole organism. And this would explain why every organic activity is reflected in the hand, and enables us to read in it our physical and mental constitution.

      Desbarolles goes farther. He claimed to be able to foretell the illnesses with which the client was threatened, because already he saw their germ. . . .² And why not? Why in the same way should not an acute observer be able to foresee, marked in the lines of the palm, the dangerous periods in an existence?

      Thus Chiromancy would be a science more exact even than Physiognomony and than Graphology which anyone sharp enough can lead astray by disguising his handwriting or by looking stern.

      Madame de Thebes, according to Desbarolles, claimed (in 1917) that Chiromancy is in fact a science which has its definite settled and verifiable laws. She wished that a Learned Society should be formed for its close study and to accumulate for this purpose properly checked documents. She denied that there was anything in it which belonged to the Kabbala or to Magic. It is pure Physiology! she would exclaim, just as anthropology or ethnology. Neither does it in any way, as we have said, fetter our liberty. There is no fatality because there are signs of character and of fate. The will remains entire. Besides, if it is in the left hand that fate is especially written, it is in the right hand that we find possibilities of modifying

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