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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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THE GOLDEN WHEEL[Frontispiece.

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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

........:

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

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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

u\

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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Doubtless you are the favourite of the planet Mars, and you will conquer those who oppose you.

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