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Grand Orient. The Wheel of Destiny is the first part of an interesting Oracle of Human Destiny. ... It is partly numerical, partly astrological, and wholly magical. The mysterious device called The Golden Wheel of Fortune, ... is said to have been used by Cagliostro. An account of this Wheel is given by Grand Orient, who states that he selected it from an old Latin manuscript on Astrology." Mr. J. Holt Schooling on Fortune-Telling by Cards and Otherwise.. .
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A MANUAL OF
CARTOMANCYFORTUNE-TELLING AND OCCULT DIVINATIONIncluding
The
Oracle
of
Human
Destiny,
Cagliostro's
Mystic Alphabet of the Magi,
The GoldenArt of
Wheel
of
Fortune,
The
Invoking Spirits in the Crystal,
The/
Various
Methods
of Divination
By
GRAND ORIENT
FOURTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED WITH PLATES
WILLIAM RIDER AND1909
SON,
LIMITED
164 Aldersgate St., London, E.C.
THE LiiixiAiiY BRIGHAM YOUNG INIVERS1T PROVO, UTAH-
PREFACEThecuriosities of esoteric literature, separated
from
the grandeurs of esoteric philosophy, are not without their individual interest, and the byways ofpractical occultism are not without their importance.
they should be rescued from the mutilations of charlatans and distinguished from theIt is desirable that
worthless impostures which are foisted on publiccredulity
as genuine remains of
the ancient and
traditional science
perpetuated by the traditionalofof
KingsThis
of the East.little
work has been compiled for the use those persons, so numerous at the present epochpsychic inquiry,
who
are desirous to test their in-
tuitional faculties
by some of the innumerable divinatory methods which were used in the past. They are offered at their own value to be tried by the resultsof experience, without putting forward
claim concerning them.
A
any specific few matters more curious
than useful have been introduced for the sake of variety, but the chief aim has been to collect whatis
simple, practical, supported by the kind of authority which can be expected in matters of this kind and
following to a certain extent the accepted lines of
procedure.
Some
of the materials are presented for
the
first
time to the English reader, and these, in
particular,
have been gleaned from remote and com-
paratively
unknown
sources.
viIt will
PREFACE
be understood that the successful conduct depends on the temporary predominance of the intuitional faculties in the Seer,of all psychic operations
and the
errors
and uncertainties which commonlyof these faculties
characterize the results are referable to the disabilities,limitations
and untrained conditionmen.
in the great majority of
The student shouldinitial failures;
not be discouraged by severalultimately developfaculty,it it
intuiwill
tive perception exists in all minds,;
and practiceit will
as
it is
otherwise a natural
when once
has free play,
performall
its
operations with the accuracy that characterizesintellectual powers.
the
A
word must be added on the abuseIt
of divinatory
methods.investthis is
has not been unusual in the past tovirtue of their
them with an inherent
own
;
an ignorant superstition. Whatever the process, whatever the instruments, they are simply aids to elicit clairvoyance, and to cast the Seer for the time being into a subjective or interior condition. It should be also remembered that any attempt toforce the oracles, for the utterance of a favourable
augury, makes void the whole operation.tion of the bias ofof
The applica-
an interested personall
in the direction
the voice of prophecy,
obviously renders the
prophecy abortive, and befools
who
consult
it.
Grand Orient.
CONTENTSPrefaceIntroduction
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PAGEv
The Lesser Secret Sciences andi
the Tradition therein
.....;
or, The Nine The Oracle of Human Destiny Thirty Hundred Answers to the Life-Ques-
tions of Pythagoras
The Mystic Alphabet of the MagiThe Golden Wheel of Fortune The Art of InvokingSpirits in.
.... .
7
87
.89.
the Crystal.
97
An Egyptian Method An UniversalQuestions
of Fortune-Telling
.108hi
The English Method of Fortune-Telling by CardsOracle,giving
Answers to all119
The Book of the Secret Word and the Higher
WayHow
to Fortune
....... .;
125145
to Find
Lucky Numbers with Dice
To Read a Person's Character by means ofKabalistic Calculations147or,.
The Mathematical Fortune-Teller Learn any Person's Age.
How.
to
.152
vii
viii
CONTENTSPAGE
Astrological Prediction as deduced from the Character of the Sign of the Zodiac ascendingat the Birth of the Individual:
the Pro.
gnostications from the Ruling Sign
Judgments Drawn from the Moon's Age
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.154 .188192
The Virtues and Influences of Precious StonesSomb Unheard of Curiosities.
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.196200203
The Hours, Virtues and Colours of the PlanetsThe Art of Ruling by the Law of GracePresages. .
Fatality of Days and Places, including Fatal:
Part
I.
How to Determine
the Lucky and
Unlucky Days of any Month
in
the Year
.
207
Part II. Further Miscellaneous Notes on the Observation of Times and Seasons.
212
The Arts of DivinationPart I.
:
Some Miscellaneous Methods
.
220
Part
II.
A Supplementary
Lexicon of the229237
Art
Of Divination by Dreams
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INTRODUCTIONTHE LESSER SECRET SCIENCES AND THE TRADITION THEREINIt will be understood that thisfor a methodicalis
scarcely the place
and extended discourse on the philosophical basis of occult art, and still less of mystical science but, though the object of the present compilation is in the main one of diversion, it will not be out of place to indicate quite briefly and simply that on one side it leans towards seriousness. As a fact, in the body of the work one or two illustrative examples are given of this more important phase.;
Speaking for theciple, it is certain
moment
of only
one general prin-
that the intuitive faculties do exist
in
man, and they are often developed by the induction of a pathological condition, of which the most recognized instance is the hypnotic state. There is no need to say by what methods this state is brought about usually, or that the occasional result is trance,clairvoyance, vision at a distance, the conversion or
translation of certain senses,
and the other evidences
that our
elements
human organism contains within itself the of many things which were once grouped
conventionally under the generic term of Magical
Power.1
B
2
A MANUAL OF CARTOMANCYThe inductionof
hypnotismto say,
is
by means
of artificial
pretexts
thatis;
is
by the use
of objects in
which thereof the art
the use of
no resident virtue on the hypothesis but old Ceremonial Magic proceeded by pretexts in which an occult power was
supposed to residecrated.
as,
for example,
in
talismans
properly prepared, and duly charged and conse-
This
is
one illustration of the fact that there
was a kindtradition
of secret priesthood in Magic, the suc-
cession of which
was from master to pupilmagicalelements.
of thethis
concerning
By
communication the pupil was ordained authoritativelywithin the sphere of the particular mystery.religion there is
But
as in the true ordination of the Divine Priesthood of
one thing which, on the hypothesis, goes before the imposition of apostolical hands on thepart of a bishop, and thatis
the vocation of thepractical
postulant, so in the priesthood of
Magic there is presupposed an antecedent faculty which corresponds to vocation, and that is the existence in
the subject of natural, intuitive, psychic and occultgifts.
The principle is contained in a nutshell, becauseis like
the true magician
the poet
born and not made.communicated
Butno
as priests are sometimes ordained
who have noto
vocation, so the elements of Magic in the past were
doubt
and
perhaps
often
persons
who
did not possess the dotations.
These
made poor and incompetent magicians, as the others make for the most part indifferent or bad priests.There is another analogy in distinction between the two hierarchies, for that which is communicated to the priest that he may in his turn communicate it to others is Divine Grace through sacramental
INTRODUCTIONchannels, while
3
that which was communicated to
the magician was the tradition of occult power.
For
he could call spirits, could compel their appearance and ensure their obedience to his commands. This art was divided generally into White and Black Magic, otherwise, Celestial and Infernal but in the records the line of demarcation is often exceedingly thin, and in the liturgical and ritual procedure which hasart,;
example, by the hypothesis of his
come down
to us, nearly everything
is
composite
supposed to be White Magic, but it has the blood sacrifice which characterizes the Black Art. It is indifferently dangerous in both orders and as it is madness in the one case, so in the other it works upon a prein character.ofis;
The Key
Solomon
posterous principle, being the old doctrine that thereis
a power resident in words, which are sacred by
and that these words, used with science, can exercise a species of compulsion on high orders of planetary spirits, and even the Holy Angels. Where the power did reside was in the psychic nature of the operator, trained and developed in accordance with a traditional knowledge and what he did encompass was at most a sporadic, uncertain and unproductive intercourse with beings in possession only of rudimentary intelligence on the unseen side of life those natures concerning which we cloak our ignorance under the names of Elemental and Elementary Spirits. At least the operator induced that state of hallucination in which it is given tofact or imputation,;
every
man
accordingly as he biologizes himself.folly of these practices per-
Behind the poisonous
petuated for centuries in secret, behind the pretence
4of this
A MANUAL OF CARTOMANCYillicit
hierarchy and priesthood a rebours, there
was another order of experiment, of which these were a coarse travesty, and as here at least there is no veryserious reason to quarrel with accepted terminology,it
may continue to be termed the Higher Magic.
This
was the research and consequent experience of
man
when he had
transferred the field of his observation
from the world without to the inward world of his There is some colourable or presumptive soul. evidence that a few old writers who treated of Ceremonial Magic were really concerned with this subject, and may have hoped by a curious and not wholly exonerable device to draw readers who could look behind the veil somewhere in the direction which they were We must remember in travelling on their own part. relation thereto that it was a dangerous period forpeople to betray knowledge, outside the beaten track,
concerning the mysteries of the soul, unless, indeed,
they lived in the Sanctuary ofdeparted atlines.all
official religion,
andif
there even research was liable toIt is only necessary tothis also
be resented
it
conspicuously from the traditional
add concerning theits faculty,is
Higher Magic thatits gifts, its
presupposed
vocation.
The reason
that althoughis
the saint
is
made
rather than born, hefirst
madeis
in
reality because
he has been born
that
to say,
with certain definite tendencies. But this statement must not be understood according to predestinariandoctrine
that
old iniquity of heretical speculation,
the product of independent private judgment put upon the written word of Holy Scripture and divorcedasIt
from the true light of the word. it was always must be understood rather in the sense of St. Paul,
INTRODUCTIONwhen he speaksof the gifts of the spirit
5
the tongues,
the discernments, the prophecies, and so forth.
seem less than unaccountable as the preliminary to what is, for the most part, a budget of trifles, the paradoxes but the reason of divination and of fortune-tellingare reaching a point which will not;
We
has been explained in the preface
that thework
trickeries,
the masks and the vestures of those subjects which
move onasit is
the borders of occult science conceal theis
psychic faculty, and that this
at
in divination,
in all other branches of the art.
We may
even go further and say that the seeress who can use with success a pack of divining cards either to forecast or discern
is
putting in operation in the lowestif
degree that power from within which,her a saint, because the work of the soul
exercised
with high intent for a spiritual object, mightis
makeso,
the soul's
workit is
in all its phases
and
regions.
This being
to be reckoned to us for righteousness that in
engarnering these
innocent amusements and a few
more fantastic trifles, something hasjbeen also recorded concerning lest we should miss what matters divers things connected with and arising therefrom
to wit, the whole universe of consideration in the inheart. The hands which are used in stealing might be the hands of healing, and when we are thinking evil we are exercising the same faculty which might be directed to things divine. If, therefore, these words of introduction should make any one
ward
of its readers,
who has
a taste for interpreting the
stars or studying the lines
upon the hands, remember
that therewill
is
a more excellent way, this compilation;
have justified itself
and it can do no harm other-
6wise.
A MANUAL OF CARTOMANCYSomeis
of the
wayof
that
methods are rather good in their to say, after their own kind and some;
Speaking generally, fatal days are nonsense, but to work out a riddle in divination with due regard to the old lore on this subject does not carry a fatality, even if any person shouldare oflittle
them
worth.
turn preternaturally serious.for all
In conclusion,thereat,
we wishof
who
try
them good luckIf
and a fund
entertainment.will
they are very successful, they
have the better reason to know that there is another Star in the East, which takes the true Magi to adore in Bethlehem. But the Three Kings were not led otherwise than by the intuitive and directinglight within.
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