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Reading Hands, Reading Lives

My introduction to palmistry was as a In 323 BC, Ptolemy built the great library

7-year-old boy in an orphanage school. at Alexandria, which housed, some say,
We were queuing for school dinners up to 400,000 ancient scrolls. Alexandria

when a boy in front of me raised his came to be regarded as the capital of
hand to warn us that the nuns were knowledge and learning, in part because
coming. These nuns, the “Sisters of of the Great Library. In the great fire, all

Mercy,” were among the most wicked, the ancient wisdom and knowledge were
cruel, and twisted people I have ever met. lost, much of which was on palmistry

But as I looked at this boy’s hand, I felt and astrology.
drawn in and saw him at various stages
of his life—at a wedding, playing with In early Bible literature, there were many

small children, and with grey hair, crying mentions of palmistry. One that remains
at a funeral. I not only saw this but felt, in modern Bibles is Job 37:7: “For God

in turn, each of the emotions. has placed signs and seals in the hands of
men that all may know their works.”
From this point on, I found I could read

all the children in the playground. This Recent excavations around the pyramids
led to regular beatings from the nuns with have exposed many skeletons hastily

straps and canes for being a “devil’s child.” buried after a battle, showing very
detailed surgeries that would not look
The history of palmistry goes way out of place today. There is not one tool

back. It was prominent in ancient India on a modern surgeon’s table that the
and China, though both schools are ancients did not have. The American

very different in their instruction and Medical Association says, “The closest
prognosis. Tibet also has a history in hand organ to the brain is the human hand.”
reading, which was based on medicine.

They have seven types of pulse-taking that As my fame spread, I was consulted by
are then used in palmar consultations. people from far and wide. They would

ask, “How do you do this? How can you
In ancient Greece and Rome, palmistry tell all this?” I honestly did not know, but
was considered a serious science. It is said I began to study palmistry in earnest and

that Pontius Pilate was a master palmist, read everything in the English language
and one wonders if he read the hands of on the subject.

Jesus and what he could have seen.
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