Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise (1902) (14596132698)

Identifier: perinsscienceofp00peri (find matches)
Title: Perin's science of palmistry; a complete and authentic treatise
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Perin, Carl Louis
Subjects: Palmistry
Publisher: Chicago : Star publishing co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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wisely classify thesame as the Venusian, which is erroneously and il-logically called the sentimental hand. Venus wascalled by the ancients the goddess of beauty and good-ness as well as the mother of love. Separating theword from its materialistic meaning (passion) and rea-soning ini a logical way we conclude that as Love isLaw and Law is Good, the philosopher, a searcher forLaw, and Venus, the producer of Love, or Law, or Good,are akin. Consequently we find that the character-istics of one are similar, if not identical with the other. In further explanation of why I classed the two to-gether I will remind the reader of the etymologicalmeaning of the word philosophic; philos is the Greekfor love, and sophia for wisdom. The philosophic orVenusian hand (Plate IV.) is recognized at a glance byits long knotty fingers, long nails, palm thin andmuscular. However, Plate IV. is a severe repre-sentation of this type. For financiers this typeof hand is exceedingly unfavorable. Persons with 50
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PLATE IV.THE PHILOSOPHIC OR VENUSIAN HAND. PERINS SCIENCE OF PALMISTRY. 53 such hands are students of nature, searchers fortruth, not for what they can make out of it, as acommodity, but for their love of knowledge, their crav-ing to improve self, intellectually and spiritually. Thistype is found belonging to the adepts of India. It isthe desire to know that the schools for the study of oc-cultism are established in the remotest parts of theHymilayas, where the devotees fast and pray andcommune with God. They have the peace that pass-eth all understanding. This type is occasionally found decked in ministerialrobe, and often among the more cultured Jesuits. Longfellow, Whittier, the poet of heart and home;Emerson, the beloved philosopher of the nineteenthcentury, had hands strikingly characteristic of thephilosophic or Venusian type of hand. Such characters do not scorn little matters, they bearin mind the well-known and true saying: Little dropsof water, little grains of sand, make a