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    Hand-Reading Made Easy
    Hand-Reading Made Easy
    Hand-Reading Made Easy
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    Hand-Reading Made Easy

    By Noel Jaquin

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    Teach yourself the art of hand reading, chapters include, the hand of man, the lines of the hand, method of reading and health in the hand. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 10, 2013
    ISBN9781447483120
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      Hand-Reading Made Easy - Noel Jaquin

      HAND-READING MADE EASY

      INTRODUCTION

      TEN THOUSAND HANDS

      IT is not enough these days to have faith, to believe in any theory. This is the age of materialism wherein everything is put to the test of practical value. To this rule hand-reading is no exception. The proof, or otherwise, of palmistry is soon found in its practice.

      In the September number of Pearson’s Magazine, 1927, there appeared an article, A New Wonder of Hand-Reading, from my pen. In this article I dealt with the most important aspect of the subject: the diagnosis of disease by means of an examination of the hand. Concluding the article was an offer to read the imprints of the readers’ hands free.

      The result of this offer was more than astounding, it was terrifying. In the first week hundreds of letters and boxes poured in, I was completely swamped. At the end of the time limit, the Editor had received just on ten thousand imprints for me to examine. Even this was not the end, many hundreds were returned to the senders, having been sent in too late.

      When talking over this article with Mr. J. R. Wade, the Editor of the Magazine, we had both estimated that roughly two hundred imprints would be received. So sure was I that not more than five hundred at the most would come in, I made a bet to that effect with a friend. I lost my bet within the first week.

      Another astounding thing was the wide appeal that this article had. The imprints did not come from the uneducated or the romantic sections of the readers, the major portion of the imprints received were from the professional classes, lawyers, doctors, dentists, officers of the Army and Navy, besides a goodly sprinkling of well-known business men.

      Perhaps never in its history has hand-reading stood such a test. Here were ten thousand hands from people who were unknown to me personally, people I had never seen.

      I have, to-day, carefully filed, my reward for six months’ hard and constant work; many thousands of letters of appreciation from the recipients of the brief readings. It was of course impossible to give more than a bare outline owing to the numbers, except in certain cases where vital questions relating to health were asked, and in these I certainly was bound to give rather a longer consideration.

      My argument is a simple and logical one; if there was nothing in palmistry, if the hand revealed nothing and it was merely a superstitious pastime for the amusement of bored and romantic humans or merely a harmless method of extracting money from the handbags of giggling flappers at church bazaars, then it would be impossible to diagnose disease or outline the character of a person I had never seen merely by glancing at an imprint of their hand.

      This has been done, not once or twice but in literally thousands of cases. To give details of even a few of these, as interesting as they are, would be to defeat the object of this book, which is to enable the readers to do all this themselves.

      Space, even in a book, is limited, so we must now concern ourselves with the more practical and valuable information concerning the science of hand-reading.

      CHAPTER 1

      THE HAND OF MAN

      IT is my ambition to give in these pages such information as will enable the reader, with ordinary patience and a certain degree of intelligent concentration, to analytically disintegrate the subject whose hands may be under examination.

      I have repeatedly stated that the hand expresses the man. Show me a hand, and with words I will paint you a portrait that you shall recognise. Follow those roads marked in the palm, and they will lead you into secret places. The hand reveals what was, what is and what may yet be.

      Many will say frankly, All nonsense. But remember, even such knowledge as we now possess of this universe, and of ourselves, only proves one thing—that all is possible, though much may be very improbable.

      Then do not judge too hastily of any matter.

      The origin of palmistry is lost in the dim distance of time, but it undoubtedly was discovered in the East, in all probability Egypt was the land of its birth, some thousands of years before Christ, and in those days it was regarded as an exact science.

      Its journey from East to West was responsible for the addition of a vast collection of superstitious fancies which ultimately came to be accepted as facts. After a time this was discovered, and thus these superstitious acquisitions branded the whole science as a fraudulent and a dangerous practice.

      Although regarded as an exact science by the ancients from the very earliest days, the manner and the cause of the palmar markings they had not the necessary physiological knowledge to understand. But apart from the actual significance of their markings, the hand has occupied the attention and enjoyed an exalted prominence in the whole history of man. The cause of this is that it was early recognised, although in no way understood, that the hand did express the individual; that is, the actual personality of the individual.

      We find that in the ancient execution of legal documents the formula used was Witness my thumb and seal. The hand is mentioned several times in Holy Writ as being symbolic of the individual. So, throughout the ages the importance of the hand of man has been recognised as expressive of his soul.

      To-day we are in the possession of a greater knowledge of the human body, and it is not quite the mystery that it was. We now see that this marking of the human hand in so expressive and particular a manner is no miracle, but merely the result of natural law, for want of a better term.

      We are beginning to realise that the secret of life, of happiness, health and success, lies not in our physical being, but in that more important and elusive part of us—the mind. The exploration of the human mind has commenced, and where we expected to find an interesting country we have discovered an illimitable continent. While it is very unwise to dogmatise, we are safe in stating that the limitations of the human mind are unknown; we are, in fact, only slowly becoming aware of its real potentialities.

      Lord Dewar once aptly remarked, It has been said that man is the noblest work of God. Nobody, however, has ever said this except man himself.

      But then we only know that there is nothing existing on this earth so important as ourselves. There is no other living

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