Encyclopedia Of Occult Scienses Vol. III Chiromancy (Palmistry) And Graphology

Encyclopedia Of Occult Scienses Vol. III Chiromancy (Palmistry) And Graphology
Author: Poinsot, Maffeo
Publisher: Aegitas
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2017-10-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1772464589

Chiromancy is, for the Occultist, the astral sign-manual contained in the hand. But it is not necessary to believe in Astrology tn order to believe in Chiromancy. In the same way as Chouasnard wants to arrive at a scientific Astrology, so Henri Rem wants, and he NII vs it himself, to “disoccult ” Chirology. He is entitled to do so. We are entitled, while respecting his method and admiring his work, to remain in our doctrinal atmosphere which arrives at the same conclusions, but maintains the link of harmony above pointed out. Let us note, however, that the disocculted Chirology keeps various astrological terms, such as the mounts of Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury or Venus, the line of the Sun, the plain of Mars, etc. It is true that it looks upon these merely as words for which it is inclined to substitute I hose of mounts of the index, the middle finger, the ring finger, the lines of health, of intuition, of fate, etc. All that has no importance. The main thing is that Chirology (which includes the traditional Chiromancy and Chirognomony) has to its credit, just as has Astrology, a considerable number of proved observations which, even if they do not rest on a valid theory, make it an actual science of great utility. But there is a chiromantic theory, whether we base it on Occultism ns being applied astrology, whether we take as its foundation, with Dcsbarolles, the animal electricity which is peculiarly noticeable in the hand, or relate it with L. Gastin to psycho-physics. Once more, one thing only counts—the amazing frequency of the correspondence l» tween the chiromantic elements and the temperament, the fate of (lie subject. This frequency has been observed for centuries, and constitutes owing to its repeated experience an empirical proof of almost indisputable value.

The Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences

The Encyclopedia of Occult Sciences
Author: M. C. Poinsot
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 492
Release: 2019-12-07
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9781794792241

To those who will only believe in phenomena which are reproducible at will, it is easy to answer them: you do not manufacture comets, meteorites, magnetic disturbances due to sunspots, and yet you observe them. Metapsychical phenomena are registered in the records of Occultism. That is all. The only thing to do is to check them. But the right remains to unite them amongst themselves by an attempt at a general explanation. The study of the Invisible, of the forces which it conceals, of the human fluids, is yet but at its dawn. Patience ! To deny is absurd. To observe is scientific. To think is wise. This is what I have done. It is what you will do after having read this book, the well arranged summing up of vast reading and lengthy thought.

The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading

The Laws of Scientific Hand Reading
Author: William G. Benham
Publisher: Health Research Books
Total Pages: 682
Release: 1993-02
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780787300906

1900 a practical treatise on the art commonly called palmistry. with 800 illustrations from life. Some of the Contents: Basis of Our Work; Plan of Creation; Mount Types; Life Current; General Attributes of the Lines; Pose & Carriage of the Hands;.

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science

Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2012-05-04
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486131629

Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, and much more.

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Author: Louis Kaplan
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 252
Release: 1995-05-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780822315926

Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist’s multifaceted life and work—an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Louis Kaplan applies the Derridean deconstructivist model of the "signature effect" to an intellectual biography of a Constructivist artist. Inhabiting the borderline between life and work, the book demonstrates how the signature inscribed by "Moholy" operates in a double space, interweaving signified object and signifying matter, autobiography and auto-graphy. Through interpretative readings of over twenty key artistic and photographic works, Kaplan graphically illustrates Moholy’s signature effect in action. He shows how this effect plays itself out in the complex of relations between artistic originality and plagiarism, between authorial identity and anonymity, as well as in the problematic status of the work of art in the age of technical reproduction. In this way, the book reveals how Moholy’s artistic practice anticipates many of the issues of postmodernist debate and thus has particular relevance today. Consequently, Kaplan clarifies the relationship between avant-garde Constructivism and contemporary deconstruction. This new and innovative configuration of biography catalyzed by the life writing of Moholy-Nagy will be of critical interest to artists and writers, literary theorists, and art historians.

How to Think about Weird Things

How to Think about Weird Things
Author: Schick, Jr. (Theodore)
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-05
Genre: Critical thinking
ISBN: 9780071289566

This brief, inexpensive text helps the reader to think critically, using examples from the weird claims and beliefs that abound in our culture to demonstrate the sound evaluation of any claim. The authors focus on types of logical arguments and proofs, making How to Think about Weird Things a versatile supplement for logic, critical thinking, philosophy of science, or any other science appreciation courses.

The Occult Sciences

The Occult Sciences
Author: Arthur Edward Waite
Publisher:
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2019-06-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781912925902

The subject of occultism, by which we mean those sciences, called transcendental and magical, a knowledge of which has been transmitted and accumu¬lated in secret, or is contained in books that have an inner or secret meaning, has been very fully dealt with during recent years by various students of eminence. But the works of these well-equipped investigators are, in most instances, unsuited to an elementary reader, and they are all somewhat expensive. It has remained for the results of their studies to be condensed into a port¬able volume, which shall conduct the inquirer into the vestibule of each branch of "the occult sciences," and place within his reach the proper means of prosecuting his researches further in any desired direction. It is such an unpretending but useful task which we have set ourselves to perform in the present volume, which em¬braces, as we would claim, in a compressed and digested form, the whole scope of occult knowledge, expressed in the language of a learner.

Modern Enchantments

Modern Enchantments
Author: Simon During
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780674013711

Magic, During suggests, has helped shape modern culture. Devoted to this deceptively simple proposition, During's work gets at the aesthetic questions at the very heart of the study of culture. How can the most ordinary arts—and by “magic,” During means not the supernatural, but the special effects and conjurings of magic shows—affect people?

Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic

Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic
Author: K. Stollznow
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2014-09-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137404868

Can a bump on the head cause someone to speak with a different accent? Can animals, aliens, and objects talk? Can we communicate with gods, demons, and the dead? Language Myths, Mysteries and Magic is a curio shop full of colourful superstitions, folklore, and legends about language.