The Hand as a Whole

As far back as we can remember, there have
been the three divisions of body, soul, and spirit; mental, abstract, and
material; air, fire, and water, and many other subdivisions into three or
trinities corresponding to the three worlds. They all embody the idea of an
ethereal element, a material one, and a baser.

We wish to find the domination of mind, material matters, or baser qualities
in the subject.

³ MENTAL ³ = the finger or upper portion of the hand
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-->If the length of finger predominates mind is the ruling factor.
We know that mind is elevating, therfore if the world of mind is strongest,
we know the subject is fitted for study, for mental occupation, and if this
development is very pronounced, without anything to back it, he will be one
who lives in a realm of ideas and exaltation, without sufficient of the
practical side present to keep him form following his mental development to
the exclusion of nece4ssary and practical matters. This is why so many
literary men, teachers, and students are such poor business men that they
accumulate nothing. They live entirely in the upper world as Palmistry
concerves it, and, while mind is all right, still all mind and nothing
practical is a most unfortunate develpment for one who has to get through
this matter of fact world.

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³ PRACTICAL ³ = the middle portion of the hand, from the base of the fingers
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to a line running across the hand from the top of the Mount of the Moon to
the Mount of Venus.
-->If the middle portion is most developed the world of business or every-day
life is strongly prominent.
This is because we have in the
territory covered by this middle portion of the hand the qualities of
ambition, soberness, wisdom, art, shrewdness, agression, and resistance
developed. This seems a fromidable array of qualities, but to the one who has
to battle with wordly affairs in this century, they are none too strong. The
middle develpment, if overshadowing both the upper and lower world, will show
that business, pracitcal life, every day ideas and material success compose
the world in which the subject lives.k Thus he is better fitted for
commercial positions, politics, wor, agricultural persuits, or for anything
which is entirely practical. He has a fine contempt for the subject who is
all brains. Money getting is moving desire, and he lives in the world of
material matters.

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³ BASE ³ = from the line from the top of the Mount of the Moon to the Mount of
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Venus to the wrist.
--> If the lower part is strongest, the subject lives on a low, earthly plane,
and is sensual and animal in his instincts.

If you find the hand developed at the base, you will know that you subject
lives in the realm of low, base desires, and enjoys himself best when
gratifying his sensual preasures. This is particularly true if the hand be
coarse. He can appreciate nothing high or elevating. It he acquaires maney he
does not know how to make a refined use of it. He loves beauty, but it is
vulgar, showy kinds that attract him; he is fond of eating, but with the
gluttony of the gourmand, not the delight of the epicure.
He has no mental recreation; mind is not a guiding force with him. He is
sometimes shrewd, but with the instinctive cunning of the fox, not the talent
of a high and lofty mind. He loves display, and in his hom will have
porusion, not taste; glaring colors, not harmony. He is vulgar and common in
all his tastes, and among people of reginment and good breeding is the
veritable boor. He does not see how ridiculous he makes himself to men of
mind nad elevated thought. he sees only from his earthly point of view, and
all his tastes, his thoughts, his loves, are coarse, vulgar, and common.

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Very often you will not be able to tell at a glance which wold predominates.
This is a most fortunate curcumstance, for it tells you that the hand is
balanced, and in everything pertaining to the human character balance is most
to be desired. Thus to have mind, practical matters and the lower desires so
combined as to give neither one a mastery of the other will show a person who
is not one-sided in his veiw of life. He will be wise, intelligent,
practical, prudent, even-tempered, and yet not unsophisticalted, for he has
enough of the base alloy to give him necessary knowledge. He is thus able to
weigh all matters, not from a purely mental standpoint, but can add to his
investigations the common-sense needed to make life successful. This balance
of the three worlds, as shown by the whole hand, enables a person to become
pronounced success in the world.
Sometimes you will see one world only slightly in excess of the others. In
this case you can say that the subject likes the matters of the particular
world best, but it may not be sufficently in the lead to make him FOLLOW it.

Of course it stands to reason that no success can come in a worldy way unless
the middle portion be developed. Mind may win glory, but not money; or the
base qualities may be abundantly present and yet not destroy financial success.

Link the two upper worlds, and you can obtain financial results from mental
strength; link the two lower and you can gain riches though it may be made in
coarse occupations. Take away the middle portion, and you have then the
spremacy of mind and the predominacne of the earthly without the leaven of
common sense; such developments cannot make successful people.

end of chapter