Laurie's Complete Fortune Teller - Astrology, Cards, Charms, Dice, Dominoes, Dreams, Gipsy Lore, Mascots, Moles, Numerology, Palmistry, Pictures in the Fire, Tablets of Fate, Teacup Reading

Diana Hawthorne

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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.

Sujets

• Spirituality
• Fortune
• Divination

Informations

• Publié par: Read Books Ltd.
• Date de parution: 01 décembre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781528764827
• Langue: English

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LAURIE S COMPLETE FORTUNE TELLER
BY
DIANA HAWTHORNE
ASTROLOGY
CARDS
CHARMS
DICE
DOMINOES
DREAMS
GIPSY LORE
MASCOTS
MOLES
NUMEROLOGY
PALMISTRY
PICTURES IN THE FIRE
TABLETS OF FATE
TEACUP READING
CONTENTS
F OREWORD : C AN W E F ORETELL THE F UTURE ?
PART I ASTROLOGY
I. THE ZODIAC-WHAT IT IS
II. THE SIGNS AND THEIR PLANETS
III. CASTING THE HOROSCOPE
IV. WHAT IS YOUR BIRTH DATE
PART II THE CARDS AND HOW TO READ THEM
I. HOW CARDS CAME TO US
II. CARD MEANINGS
III. READING THE CARDS
PART III NUMEROLOGY
I. ITS FOUNDATIONS AND TEACHINGS
II. HOW NUMEROLOGY MAY HELP YOU
PART IV DREAMS
I. DREAMS TO HEED AND DREAMS TO IGNORE
II. A DICTIONARY OF DREAMS
III. THE DREAM INTERPRETER
PART V THE MEANINGS OF MOLES
I. THE MEANINGS OF MOLES
PART VI PALMISTRY
I. THE ANCIENT ART
II. THE FINGERS AND NAILS
III. THE MOUNTS AND LINES
PART VII FORTUNES IN THE FIRE
I. FORTUNES IN THE FIRE
PART VIII TEA-CUP READING
I. TEA-CUP READING
PART IX FORTUNE TELLING BY DOMINOES AND DICE
I. FORTUNE TELLING BY DOMINOES AND DICE
PART X MASCOTS AND CHARMS TO ENSURE HEALTH, LOVE AND GENERAL GOOD LUCK
I. WHAT THE GIPSY SAID
II. CHARMS TO BRING HEALTH
III. LOVE CHARMS AND MASCOTS
IV. MASCOTS TO BRING GOOD LUCK
PART XI THE TABLETS OF FATE
THE TABLET OF THE SPHINX
THE SPELL OF THE NEW MOON
THE MAGNETIC HORSESHOE
CUPID S SCROLL
THE SYMBOLIC SWASTIKA
THE LUCKY BELL
THE SPELL OF THE RISING SUN
THE SEAL OF SOLOMON
THE SCALES OF FATE
FOREWORD
CAN WE FORETELL THE FUTURE?
It is only those who take a narrow view of Nature who do not understand that there are laws in Nature we do not understand yet .-T HE B ISHOP OF L ONDON .
T HOSE people who take narrow views and who, in consequence, are quite sure anything they may say is beyond contradiction, will strive to impress upon you most emphatically that it is not possible for any living soul to foretell what is going to happen. A lucky guess may be made, or something may be said which seems to come true, thanks to the long arm of coincidence, they decide, and that seems to satisfy them. They are on a par with those who, watching a particularly clever conjuring trick, will say comfortably, There s nothing in it . . . it s all done by wires, oblivious to the very evident fact that if it were done by wires the feat would be more amazing still.
Of course it is impossible to foretell the future by the stars or the cards, by tea-leaf reading or the hand, say these very cocksure unbelievers, and generally add that they can see nothing of what others profess to discern, therefore they are sure there is nothing to be seen.
The ostrich who buries its head in the sand sees nothing either.
Because they are completely without psychic power, the unbelievers will not allow the possibility of its being possessed by others. If cases are quoted to contradict their views, they will not listen, yet when the sceptics are learned and wide-minded, a very different result is obtained. Recently a Society antagonistic to any form of psychic experiment, engaged two professors of world-wide erudition to investigate certain statements with a view of disproving anything besides purely material influences had been at work. The results are well known and beyond dispute. One of those learned gentlemen became a convert to the very teachings he had set out to combat, and the other threw up his engagement, refusing to carry his research further under the present conditions. He said he had discovered enough to convince him there was great Truth behind a mass of what we call Superstition.
A woman friend of my own was very scornful of all such subjects, and when she was invited to stay for a rather long visit at a haunted house, she accepted with much laughter, quite convinced she would never see or hear anything that was not of the earth earthy. Nor did she for a considerable time. Then another guest was expected, a highly strung, nervous girl, and my friend was cautioned not to mention the haunting in her presence. The whole affair must be kept a dead secret, otherwise the health of the girl might be seriously affected. Of course my friend promised, so did everyone else concerned. Most emphatically when that girl came to the house she heard nothing of the haunting.
In the evening she and my friend happened to be passing down one of the upper corridors together. It was well lighted, and so far as my friend could see everything was normal, when the other girl stopped with a gasp. Her face grew pale.
That old man, she whispered. The old man in the queer dress. What is he doing here?
My friend stared towards the top of the stairs at which the girl seemed to be looking.
There s no one there. What in the world are you talking about? she said. And remember, there was no one there so far as she was concerned.
The other girl caught her hand.
But he is there. . . . I am afraid of him. . . . Look . . . look. . . .
At the touch of that girl s clinging fingers a change came to my friend. Cold terror ran through her, and she saw an old, old man, wearing the dress of a bygone age. He did not seem to know the girls were near, so intently was he staring over the banisters down into the hall below.
You see him . . . you see him, the other girl whispered. She released my friend s hand and at once the terror went. The old man vanished.
But my friend was convinced, she never denied the possibility of the Occult again.
A few years ago a book that made something of a sensation was published and a recently released film had been founded on it. Though different in detail there is a fundamental similarity between it and the experience I have related. In the book and in the film the man s power of clairvoyance came to him only in the presence of a certain woman. She was not the woman he loved, though she came to love him, and, when apart from him had no special power. Only when their two egos were together was his Gift of Prophecy born. When they were apart it did not exist, only when they were in the same room did it come into being, and in this case no physical contact was necessary. I have every reason to believe that story was founded on undoubted fact.
I have quoted these instances in an effort to show that though many people seem quite without any psychic gift, it may, and probably does, lie dormant in us all to a greater or less degree, ready to wake to life in response to certain influences which we, as yet, know too little to identify with certainty. For it must be remembered that even the most learned of scientists, the most gifted of Seers, stands only at the beginning of knowledge. Our present state of spiritual development is far too young for us to claim any great advance, though it is true many thinkers and students in the Far East, having the traditions and inheritance of generations behind them, are infinitely in advance of ourselves.
Quite a few years ago it must have been difficult to find any argument that might make those who did not wish to be convinced, see the possibility of the existence of Something which lies beyond the reach of our material senses. Recently that has been altered. Our familiarity with the wonders of wireless has provided a simple object-lesson that should do much to bring about at least a sympathetic attitude, if not a complete understanding. Of course I am not suggesting that the object-lesson should be taken literally, nor that the disturbance of the ether which causes wireless waves is the same force as bridges space in Telepathy or enables the Seer to read a mesage of the future.
Possibly-probably-the force we loosely describe as the Occult, meaning the Unknown, is another of the natural powers which remain to be discovered, but what I am trying to impress upon all who are sceptical, is that as our wireless only takes voice when it is properly tuned in, and as the best reception becomes chaotic under interference, so it is with any attempt at the reading of the future. Such reading is not possible to everyone, they are as a set which is not sufficiently selective, but most people can and do obtain results after a certain amount of study and attention to definite rules.
In any case the best results come when only two people, the Seer and the Inquirer, are present, and it is important both should concentrate on the subject with all gravity. The presence of any other person who is not in complete harmony causes interference. Returning to the object-lesson of the wireless, we all know what that may mean. Other voices, not those to which we have been listening, take possession of the set. Strange sounds are heard. That which we strive to capture is faded out or distorted.
All Seers acknowledge they have the greatest difficulty in reading the future for some people, while for others all that is vital is revealed clearly almost at a glance. That of course confirms what many thoughtful people believe, that always some form of thought-reading or Telepathy is present, a background to the reading as it were. A lady who is a well-known authority on cards once said to me:
For some people, when I look at their cards it is exactly as if I were staring at a message written in a foreign language, of which I had only the slightest knowledge. Everything is muddled, often it is contradictory. Try as I may I cannot get it right. Yet with others, directly I look at the cards the message is clear. It is a language I can understand.
Another lady, an expert in Palmistry, said exactly the same thing, tho