#BOOKS ON PALMISTRY IN HINDI MANUAL#

#BOOKS ON PALMISTRY IN HINDI MANUAL#

The skeptical Mark Twain wrote in Cheiro's visitor's book that he had 'exposed my character to me with humiliating accuracy'.Д®dward Heron-Allen, an English polymath, published various works including the 1883 book, Palmistry вЂ“ A Manual of Cheirosophy, which is still in print. So popular was Cheiro as a 'society palmist' that even those who were not believers in the occult had their hands read by him. Stead, Sarah Bernhardt, Mata Hari, Oscar Wilde, Grover Cleveland, Thomas Edison, the Prince of Wales, General Kitchener, William Ewart Gladstone, and Joseph Chamberlain. After studying under gurus in India, he set up a palmistry practice in London and enjoyed a wide following of famous clients from around the world, including famous celebrities like Mark Twain, W. de Saint-Germain) founded the American Chirological Society in 1897.ДЄ pivotal figure in the modern palmistry movement was the Irish William John Warner, known by his sobriquet, Cheiro. Hill in 1889 with the stated aim to advance and systematise the art of palmistry and to prevent charlatans from abusing the art. The Chirological Society of Great Britain was founded in London by Katharine St. Palmistry experienced a revival in the modern era starting with Captain Casimir Stanislas D'Arpentigny's publication La Chirognomie in 1839.

Modern palmistry ДЄ modern palm-reader's shop in Yangon, Myanmar Both Pope Paul IV and Pope Sixtus V issued papal edicts against various forms of divination, including palmistry. During the 16th century the art of palmistry was actively suppressed by the Catholic Church. In Renaissance magic, palmistry (known as 'chiromancy') was classified as one of the seven 'forbidden arts', along with necromancy, geomancy, aeromancy, pyromancy, hydromancy, and spatulamancy ( scapulimancy). Palmistry is indirectly referenced in the Book of Job, which is dated by scholars to between the 7th and 4th centuries BCE. The text it is not contained in his canonical works. A chapter of a 17th-century sex manual, misattributed to Aristotle, is occasionally incorrectly cited as being the treatise in question. Aristotle (384вЂ“322 B.C.E.) reportedly discovered a treatise on the subject of palmistry on an altar of Hermes, which he then presented to Alexander the Great (356вЂ“323 B.C.E.), who took great interest in examining the character of his officers by analyzing the lines on their hands.

Palmistry also progressed independently in Greece where Anaxagoras practiced it. From India, the art of palmistry spread to China, Tibet, Egypt, Persia and to other countries in Europe. Several thousand years ago, the Hindu sage Valmiki is thought to have written a book comprising 567 stanzas, the title of which translates in English as The Teachings of Valmiki Maharshi on Male Palmistry. The acupuncturist Yoshiaki Omura describes its roots in Hindu astrology (known in Sanskrit as jyotish), Chinese Yijing ( I Ching), and Roma fortune tellers. Palmistry is a practice common to many different places on the Eurasian landmass it has been practised in the cultures of India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Persia, Sumeria, Canaan and Babylonia.

The Fortune Teller, by Caravaggio (1594вЂ“95 canvas Louvre), depicting a palm reading Ancient palmistry

Books on palmistry in hindi