Excerpt from A Manual of Cartomancy, Fortune-Telling and Occult Divination: Including the Oracle of Human Destiny, Cagliostro's Mystic Alphabet of the Magi, the Golden Wheel of Fortune, the Art of Invoking Spirits in the Crystal, the Various Methods of Divination Th'e curiosities of esoteric literature, separated from the grandeurs of esoteric philosophy, are not with out their individual interest, and the byways of practical occultism are not without their importance. It is desirable that they should be rescued from the mutilations of Charlatans and distinguished from the worthless impostures which are foisted on public credulity as genuine remains of the ancient and traditional science perpetuated by the traditional Kings of the East. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.