To be a True Palmist.

First be true to yourself; do not attempt to exaggerate. Confine yourself to what you know, but be wide awake, and search for new discoveries, new meanings, new interpretations of the symbols shown in the hand; note each particular location and thus discover by association and modification the final result.

The process of construction and growth involves successive steps, taken in definite order, as for instance the seed, the plumule and radicle; the stem, branches, buds, leaves, flowers and fruit. In building the foundation, frame work, walls, floor and roof.

Destructive methods do not require regularity and system; we may burn, cut down, destroy, tear down or let things perish by natural decay.

This great law governing growth and decay, constructive and destructive process, must apply fully to prophetic symbolism. The Bibles of the world of Christian or Pagan origin are full of symbolism endeavoring to illustrate, where ordinary language is inadequate.

When we speak of the harmony of colors, the light of a community, the beast in man, fortune in a star, vast as the sea, wise as serpents, and numerous similar expressions, convey more than the simple word in ordinary use. Words cannot describe the heartfelt yearnings of a mother for her child, nor the beauty of a sunset, nor the fragrance and beauty of a rose, but symbolism approaches it, and whenever man will turn to nature and study her language, her symbolism expressed in all her moods, in all creation, in life and death as well, then will he become master of her secrets.

As nature writes her story in the rocks, along the shores of time, in the eternal seas of the vast universe of worlds, so does she write indelibly into the hand the inmost thoughts of the human soul. He who has attained the science of reading symbolism there is indeed a master.