Cheiro's
Notes I
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CHEIRO : HIS LIFE AND WORK
Cheiro,
greatest and most successful seer of modern times, retired from public life
after forty years of continuous occult research work. He died shortly
afterwards. He believed totally in the findings of his years of study on the
occult sciences. He believed, for instance, that a reasoned interpretation
of the lines of the hand could produce a full and accurate assessment of
character, health, life and intellect. He proved this belief by thousands of
successful readings of the hands of people in all walks of life. But more
than this, he believed that it was an invaluable advantage to all people-men
or women, king or peasant-to know their faults and weaknesses, to recognise
where their strength lay and along which path lays the road to true
fulfillment. He earnestly desired to spread this learning, which he himself
had so painstakingly acquired.
For years he toured the cities of
the world lecturing, teaching and encouraging. His audience were vast, and
wherever he went, he was enthusiastically acclaimed. But it was not enough;
he knew that for every one who crowded the lecture halls a thousand went in
ignorance of his teaching. Striving ever for the wider audience, he sat down
and wrote the first of those books, which have since found their way into
every part of the civilised globe. He wrote exhaustively and passionately
(as he did all things), yet with such clarity that anyone of ordinary
intelligence could follow and understand easily the import of his words.
Nowhere
was this lucidity more evident than in his books on palmistry. Even a
superficial acquaintance of these works is sufficient to kindle an immediate
interest in the lines of the hand and to convey to the reader enlightening
information about his own past and present, and the probable indications of
his future. Closer study inevitably brings fuller understanding and greater
accuracy, and with the deepening of the interest the casually enquiring
layman involuntarily develops into the serious student. The secret lies in
Cheiro's remarkable ability to teach. He used no high-sounding terms or
phrases-he had no desire to impress but in simple, everyday language he
contrived to impart the knowledge he had gained through the years. The
books, which he wrote even today remain supreme and unchallenged. He himself
could not have asked a more fitting memorial.
WHO WAS CHEIRO ?
For
many years the true identity of Cheiro was a carefully guarded secret. Only
when he had reached the very peak of his profession did Cheiro allow it to
be known that he was Count Louis Hamon, a Norman nobleman whose ancestory
could be traced back to the early days of the Norman French. He was a highly
gifted man who, had he desired, might have won fame in one of many other
pursuits in life. Instead he chose at the threshold of manhood to live in
the East, so that he might study the forgotten wisdom of the Hindus, and the
mysteries of other races. Deeply impressed by what he discovered, he
returned to Western civilisation, convinced that he had lighted upon a study
worthy of the attention of every thinking man and woman. How right he was is
revealed by the fact that in a very short time three continents were echoing
with Cheiro's name.
He was commanded to read the hands of many of
the crowned heads of Europe, of presidents of republics and of leaders of
commerce. Many subsequently testified that Cheiro's powers of prediction
from a study of the lines of their hands were akin to miraculous.
Chiero
predicted the date of Queen Victoria's death, the year and month when King
Edward the VII would pass away, the grim destiny that awaited the late Czar
of Russia, the assassination of King Humbert of Italy, the attempt on the
Shah's life in Paris, and in thousands of well-known persons' lives he
foretold with equal accuracy the outstanding events of their careers.
One
of his most dramatic predictions was when (twenty-two years before the
event) Cheiro foretold to Lord Kitchener the year of his death and the
likely form it would take. The terms of this remarkable prediction made by
Cheiro at the War Office were that Kitchener would meet his death in his
sixty-sixth year and that it would not be an end that a soldier might
normally expect. His death would be caused by water, probably by storm or
disaster at sea, with the attendant chance of capture by an enemy and exile
from which he would never recover.
When this prediction was made
the great Kitchener was practically unknown. He gave Cheiro a signed
impression of his hand, which had, strangely enough, the Seal of the War
Office imprinted on it. Lord Kitchener never forgot Cheiro's words. During
the World War I, while at the Front, he mentioned it to General de
Ballincourt and members of his staff.
The tragic sinking of the
battleship Hampshire, in Lord Kitchner's sixty-sixth year, and the chance
that the great soldier might has been captured by an enemy submarine, bore
out the prediction to the letter. It was a remarkable example of the
accuracy of his system.
A similar prediction was made about
celebrated journalist, W. T. Stead, and with equal accuracy,, before he met
his death in the ill-fated Titanic.
Cheiro became world-famous
through the perfection with which he brought this study of the hand. In
London, Paris, New York, Boston, Chicago, in Petrograd, Rome, and all the
principal cities of the world, he demonstrated that the lines of the hand
are a veritable chart of life. His success was acclaimed by all classes, and
in his Visitors' Book were inscribed, autographed testimonies without
parallel.
In Cheiro's works will be found clearly drawn diagrams of
the various lines that seem so bewildering when glanced at in ignorance of
their real meaning. The author, however, illuminates the whole subject
lucidly and in such manner that the reader can learn to "Know himself"
with quite uncanny accuracy.
Cheiro's works place in concise form
the knowledge of a lifetime's study and experience. With the passing of the
author there can be no other single source offering such inestimable
teachings.Cheiro's
Notes II
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
FOREWORD
It
naturally follows that if a person should make a special study of any one
subject, from long experience and studious research, he will in the end
unravel, at least to some extent, the so-called mysteries of the subject on
which he has so concentrated his attention.
To the student of Art,
Art reveals her mysteries of color, form, design, pose, and a thousand and
one subtleties that escape the ordinary observer. To the student of Biology
every leaf tells its own story, every tree its age, every flower its own
pedigree.
To the student of Science, what is magic to the
uninitiated becomes a natural phenomenon with general laws, governed by
rules or calculations that all who choose can learn and understand.
In
presenting this book to the public I need then offer no other apology for so
doing, than that of having been a student of this particular branch of
thought for a very long period, and having proved so-called theories by
countless experiments and experiences, I feel I am at last in a position to
give to the world at large the result of such studies.
It is
admitted by all that the occult side of things has been the one side of life
the least explored or investigated. That there is an occult or hidden part
in actual relation to human life is on every side a conceded fact, but
before this mystery-the greatest of all-the majority of thinkers have held
themselves aloof.
In our age the physical and mechanical sciences
have called for the greatest attention, yet such things as wireless
communication and radium, to-day household words, have been stumbled across
by so-called chance.
Already wireless communication has saved
hundreds of lives, radium has done likewise, the mysteries of yesterday have
become the commonplaces of today, and so knowledge in the eternal fitness of
things becomes the servant of those who serve.
In pursuit of the
laws, which have controlled thought in recent centuries, man has, in earning
his successes on the physical and mechanical plane, forgotten the loss he
has sustained from the lack of study and observation on the occult or
psychic side of humanity. He is more occupied to-day in building implements
for the destruction of life than he is in the problems of life itself, or in
the finding out of those laws which create, control, and sustain life.
When
Newton discovered gravitation, it was not supposed for a moment that he had
solved the problem of the spheres, and it is sometimes forgotten that when
he came to realize that beyond our system of stars, sun, moon and planets
there were again the "fixed stars" with their countless systems,
in the magnitude of the problem, he could only decide that there was again
some occult law behind all, greater than any known law that could even be
imagined.
With these few words as a preface, I will endeavor to
make my theory so clear that I hope anyone of ordinary intelligence may be
able to follow and experiments with certain rules, which will be treated in
the following chapters.
During my earlier years, when traveling in
the East, it had been my good fortune to come in contact with a certain sect
of Brahmins who had kept in their hands from almost prehistoric times
studies and practices of an occult nature which they regarded as sacredly as
they did their own religious teachings. Among other things, they permitted
me to learn certain theories on the occult significance of numbers and their
influence and relation to human life, which subsequent years and manifold
experiences not only confirmed, but justified me in endeavoring to apply
them in a practical sense so that others might also use this knowledge with,
I hope, advantage to themselves and to those around them
The
ancient Hindu searchers after Nature's laws, it must be remembered, were in
former years masters of all such studies, but in transmitting their
knowledge to their descendants; they so endeavored to hide their secrets
from the common people that in most cases the key to the problem became
lost, and the truth that had been discovered became buried in the dust of
superstition and charlatanism, to be re-formed, let us hope, when some
similar cycle of thought in its own appointed time will again claim
attention to this side of nature
This ancient people, together with
the Chaldeans and Egyptians, were the absolute masters of the occult or
hidden meaning of numbers, in their application to time and in their
relation to human life.
When examining such questions, we must not
forget that it was the Hindus who discovered what is known as the precession
of the Equinoxes, and in their calculation such an occurrence takes place
every 25,827 years, our modern science after labor of hundreds of years has
simply proved them to be correct.
How, or by what means they were
able to arrive at such a calculation, has never been discovered-observations
lasting over such a period of time are hardly admissible, and calculation
without instruments is also scarcely conceivable, and so science has only
been able, first to accept their statement, and later to acknowledge its
accuracy.
Their judgment, together with that of the Chaldeans, as
to the length of what is now known as the cycle of years of the planets, has
been handed down to us from the most remote ages, and also by our modern
appliances has been proved correct, so when one comes to a study such as
this, as to the value of the numbers, 1 to 9, which, as the seven harmonies
of music are the bases of all music that has ever been conceived, these
above-stated numbers are the basis of all our numbers and calculations, it
is then only logical to accept the decisions of those great students of long
past ages and at least examine their deductions with a mind free from bias
and prejudice.
It is impossible in a book of this size to give in
detail all the reasoning and examples that exist for a belief in the occult
side of numbers, but it may interest my readers if I give a few
illustrations of why the number 7 has for ages been regarded as the number
of mystery relating to the spiritual side of things, and why the number 9
has in its turn come to be regarded as the finality or end of the series on
which all our materialistic calculations are built, but the most casual
observer can only admit that beyond the number 9 all ordinary numbers become
but a mere repetition of the first 9. A simple illustration of this will
readily suffice. The number 10 as the zero is not a number, becomes a
repetition of the number 1. The number 11 added together as the ancient
occultists laid down in their law of natural addition, namely, adding
together from left to right, repeats the numbers 2, 12 repeats 3, 13 repeats
4 and so on up to 19 which in its turn becomes 1 plus 9 equals 10, and so
again the repetition of 1. 20 represents 2, and so on to infinity. The
occult symbolism of what are called compound numbers, that is, those numbers
from 10 onwards, I will explain later. Cheiro's
Notes III
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
In
this way it will be seen that in all our materialistic systems of numbers,
the numbers 1 to 9 are the base on which we are compelled to build, just as
in the same way the seven great or primary harmonies in music are the bases
of all music, and again as the seven primary colours are the bases of all
our combinations of colours. In passing, it may be remarked that all through
the Bible and other sacred books, the "seven" whenever mentioned,
always stands in relation to the spiritual or mysterious God force, and has
a curious significance in this sense whenever employed.
For a few
instances of this, take the seven days (or cycles) of the creation as
referred to in Genesis:
The seven heavens, so often referred to.
The
seven thrones.
The seven seals.
The seven churches.
The
seven days march round the walls of Jericho, when, on "the seventh day",
the walls fell, before that mysterious God force symbolised in the number of
seven. It is also remarkable that there are exactly seven generations from
David to the birth of Christ. In Revelation we read of the "seven
spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." Ezekiel speaks of "The
seven angels of the Lord that go to and fro through the whole earth,"
which is believed to be a reference to the magnetic influences of seven
creative planets which radiate through the earth.
Again, we have
the seven Spirits referred to in the Egyptian religion.
The seven
Devas of the Hindus' Bible.
The seven Amschaspands of Persian
faith.
The seven Angels of the Chaldeans.
The
seven Sephiroth of the Hebrew Cabala.
The seven Archangels of
revelation, etc. etc.
Let us now take another view of this
strange number. If we were to examine every class of occult teaching from
the Hindu, Chinese, Egyptian, Greek, Hebrew, or modern school, whichever one
may choose, in every case-and without a single exception-we shall find that
the quality of the number 7 stands for the expression of that mysterious God
force in Nature before referred to.
In the most ancient rules of
occult philosophy we find the rule laid down that the number 7 is the only
number capable of dividing "the number of Eternity", and
continuing in itself as long as the number representing Eternity lasts, and
yet, at every addition of itself producing the number 9, or in other words
it produces the basic number on which all materialistic calculations are
built and on which all human beings depend and the whole edifice of human
thought finds expression.
EXAMPLE
The
number 1 is the first number. It represents the First Cause, Creator, God or
Spirit, call it as you like. A circle or the zero, "0," has always
been taken as the symbol of endlessness otherwise Eternity. Place the 1 and
the figure zero by its side, and you get the significant symbol of eternity
such as 1 plus 0, the 10, and then, place as many of these emblems of
eternity side by side as you like, and you get such a figure as 1,000,000.
Divide by the mystic number 7 and you get the number 142857.
7)1,000,000
142857
Add as many zeros as you like, and keep on dividing by the
7, and you yourself may go on through all eternity and you can only get
repetitions of the same 142857, which from time immemorial has been called
the "sacred number". Now add this number wherever you find it by
natural addition, it will give you the figure 27, and as you have seen by
the rule of natural addition described on a preceding page, you keep adding
till only one number remains, to arrive at what is known as "the root
of the number". You add again 27 by natural addition, and 2 plus 7
equals 9, or in other words, you get the full range of the first series of
numbers on which all materialistic or human calculations can be built.
Now,
let us return to the symbolism of seven for a moment. You know, of course,
that Buddha is always represented as sitting in the centre of a Lotus. Let
us examine, then, the secret of such a selection. It is not perhaps
generally known that the 7 is reproduced in many strange ways in Nature
herself, and that flowers that have not been crossed by intermingling with
other flowers have their outside petals in the number of seven, but as
flowers are so easily crossed with other varieties, and it is so difficult
to find a pure type, Buddha took the Lotus, which never becomes crossed or
loses its individuality, as the emblem of the religion he taught, because,
first, its seven foundation petals are always in evidence, and further, the
religion he taught was that the creative Spirit was the foundation and
origin of all things, and thus again bore silent but unmistakable testimony
to the creative action of the seven planets from which all religions have
had their origin.
Long before man made his creeds, or civilizations
their laws, the influence of these seven planets had become known on the
earth. Out of the dark night of antiquity their light became law, and as far
as we can penetrate, even to the very confines of prehistoric days, in all
races, in all countries, we find the influence of the seven planets through
all and in all.Cheiro's
Notes IV
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
DAYS OF THE WEEK
EXAMPLE
In
the first place, the secret or occult significance of numbers was revealed
to man so far back in the world's history that the exact place of their
discovery has never been recorded, but it suffices to state that if one goes
back in one's investigations to the most distant period in the history of
any race who made themselves in any degree responsible for such studies,
even there one would find that these numbers representing the qualities of
the solar system and the basis of all our later forms of calculation
existed.
In working out the idea contained in these pages, I have
carefully investigated every important form of occultism bearing on this
question, but whether it has been Hindu, Egyptian, Chaldean, or Greek, the
symbols of these numbers have always appeared the same, and their relation
to months, days, hours, and people representing certain numbers, has been
more or less alike.
What is called "the secondary numbers"
as illustrated on subsequent pages I myself have brought into a practical
form, but they have in every case been built up from long investigation and
experience extending over many years. Although we may never be able to find
out the exact time in past ages when the influence of these numbers was
discovered, that is no reason why we should not accept what has been given
us by those ancient students. There are many other things we are forced to
accept in life from being conscious of their truth, even when we are not
able to get back to their birth or beginnings.
The origin of life
we know not, but we are nonetheless conscious that life exists. The balance,
poise, and hidden laws governing our own solar system have also never been
explained, together with a thousand other things in our everyday life. The
very origin of numbers is itself a mystery; yet we are forced to employ
them, and as Balzac says, "without them, the whole edifice of our
civilization would fall to pieces."
Perhaps it may have been
that in some far-off time in the history of human life, secrets were
revealed to man by his then more close connection with the "God force"
that called life into being. The Bible itself tells us that in a certain age
"God walked with man." Perhaps then "the Fall" may have
a still greater meaning than that which has been usually ascribed to it.
In
some of the most illumined of the Greek philosophers we find such an age
described as when "the gods talked with man" and taught him the
mysteries of his creation
This idea is borne out all through the
teachings of the Bible. We read in its pages that Abraham, Moses, Elijah,
and others, "talked with God." The words "The Lord spake unto
Moses" occurs over thirty times in the Book of Leviticus alone. A
forcible illustration may also be given from the Book of the Wisdom of
Solomon, now included in the Apocrypha, where Solomon says:
For God
Himself gave me an unerring knowledge of the things that are, to know the
constitution of the world, the beginnings and the end and middle of times,
the alterations of the solstices, the changes of seasons and the positions
of the planets, the nature of living creatures and the thoughts of men, all
things that are either secret or manifest I learned, for He that is the
artificer of all things taught me this wisdom.
I ask, could
anything be more forcible or convincing than such a statement, particularly
when it is remembered that the true Seal of Solomon was none other than the
seven-pointed star which contained the nine numbers which constitute the
base of all our calculations, and which is the root of the system of numbers
as applied to human life?
Even in our chemistry we have given a
number and symbol to all the elements.
| Water is |
. |
. |
. |
1010 |
its |
symbol |
is |
H2O |
| Hydrogen |
. |
. |
. |
212 |
,, |
,, |
,, |
H |
| Oxygen |
. |
. |
. |
1030 |
,, |
,, |
,, |
O |
| Nitrogen |
. |
. |
. |
1969 |
,, |
,, |
,, |
N |
| Carbon |
. |
. |
. |
1050 |
,, |
,, |
,, |
C |
and so on.THE
SEVEN-POINTED SEAL OF SOLOMON: EXPLANATION
The
Sun, with the numbers I hyphen 4, represents the combination of the Sun and
the planet Uranus (the male quality of Creation being the Sun with the
feminine Uranus of the mental or spiritual plane). The Moon, with numbers 2
hyphen 7, represents the Moon and Neptune, the Moon being feminine on the
material or earth plane with Neptune (masculine) on the mental or spiritual
plane.
The meaning of lines of the Star being: That Life starts
from the Sun, proceeds to the Moon, from that to Mars, from Mars to Mercury,
Mercury to Jupiter, Jupiter to Venus, Venus to Saturn, and from Saturn
(symbol of death) it returns to the Sun-or God from whence it came to begin
all over again in another cycle, and so on through eternity.
All
occult studies point to the fact that the ancient students had a foundation
for ascribing to every human being his number in the universe, and if we
admit, as we do, that there is a moment for birth and a moment for death, so
also in the links of years, days and hours, that make up the chain of life,
it is not illogical to assume that every link of life has also both its
number and place. I claim that by such a study man may become more perfect
by his fitting in with the laws, system, and order of things to which he
owes his being.
In this study there is nothing antagonistic to
Religion or to our present-day acceptance of the idea of God. On the
contrary, man will but honor God the more by his more perfect obedience to
Nature's laws. In no text or passage in Holy Writ are we told that God
desires human beings to suffer except as the consequence of their own acts,
on the contrary, we are everywhere shown that man brings suffering and
punishment on himself by his disobedience of Nature's commands. As a logical
sequence, it must follow then that if we move with the laws of life and are
in harmony with them we must become more happy, healthy, and successful, and
consequently nearer that state of perfection that is the ultimate object of
divine design.
What would you think of a workman in a factory who,
instead of moving with the wheels of, say, a weaving machine, attempted to
force them in a contrary direction? Would not such a man be crushed,
injured, or perhaps lose his life? You would call him a fool, and he would
not even gain your sympathy, and if such a man brought such a fatality on
himself by ignorance, your sentence on him would be perhaps even more
severe. Yet you call Nature unjust, cruel, or any other name that may fit
into the circumstances-you! who do not even take the trouble of seeing which
way her irresistible forces are moving. You pray. "Thy will be done on
earth as it is in heaven," but you have no more intention of even
trying to find out what is the "will" which is obeyed in heaven,
and broken by you every second, than if the sacred prayer had never been
made.
Your cities are filled with broken lives, your workhouses and
mistaken charities are hideous proofs of the failure of your system. Your
churches are monuments to the unknown, while the known lives with you in
every action of your daily life and suffers with you when in your blindness
you bring about the evils you could so easily avoid. You have tried every
creed, and they have failed to comfort you. You are told to cry that you are
" miserable sinners" you are worse, for you are ignorant sinners,
and it is your ignorance alone that keeps you miserable. How, then, will you
accept this thought of another way of looking at life that I bring you in
these pages? It may give you a new interest in life. It may yet become a
religion unto you, but if it does, it will only unfold the hidden truth of
your other religions, the key of whose mysteries you entrusted to priests
and prelates, who lost it in their cloisters or buried it in their
ceremonies. To the Jew it will be as precious as to the Christian.
To
the Jew it will be as precious as to the Christian. His twelve tribes will
live again in the twelve divisions of the Zodiac, in the twelve stones on
the breast of the High Priest, and in the building of the Tabernacle. The
words he has so often heard, "See that thou makest all things according
to the pattern shown thee on the Mount,'' or in other words the pattern of
the heavens carried out in the Temple of Solomon, will now have a true
significance in his ears.
He will remember that when his race
marched out in triumph from the bondage of Egypt, they did so in four
divisions, each carrying a standard, which represented the four divisions of
the Zodiac with each of the twelve tribes in their Zodiacal order
The
Ten Commandments given to Moses on the Mount will no longer represent an
unmeaning number, but, as explained by this study, the very number has been
chosen to imply by the figure 1, the FIRST CAUSE or the Creator, and the "0"-
the symbol of Eternity." The Ten Commandments were given by the Creator
for all eternity. They represent the nine planets and the infinity of space
beyond, which, like ten steps, leads upward to the farthest boundary of our
solar system, beyond which, on the Throne of unimaginable Thought, the
Creator of all creates.
Skeptics of Occultism often have the
mistaken idea that the ancient astrologers, as they had no sufficiently
powerful telescopes, must have been unaware of any planets in our solar
system beyond Saturn; but I have shown earlier in these pages that, although
they may not have had our wonderful instruments of to-day, yet by some other
means they attained a knowledge which equaled, if not out-distanced, our
instruments of precision, as, for example, in their discovery of the "precision
of the Equinoxes," etc., and in the knowledge of other matters which
may have been revealed to them in that age when "God talked with man."
There
is evidence, however, that those ancient students were conversant with the
fact that there were two more distant planets than Saturn in our solar
system, for they assigned beyond "the seven creative planets" the
orbits for two more heavenly bodies, and they described them as governing
the thoughts on the mental side of Nature and not the physical, and their
description of them is in exact accordance with our present-day knowledge of
the effect of the recently discovered planets of Uranus and Neptune on human
life.Cheiro's
Notes V
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
DAYS OF THE WEEK
EXAMPLE
To
the Christian, be he Protestant, Catholic, or Non-conformist, the study, as
indicated in these pages, can but increase his faith in the glory of his
Creator, and explain much that has hitherto been unexplained and unanswered.
He will see in a new light the meaning of the Book of Genesis. The six,
days' labor, and the seventh-the day of rest-will now have an added interest
in his eyes.
He will observe the special selection of the number
12, to be the number of the disciples of Christ, and the anxiety after the
death of Judas that the gap should be filled and again the number 12
completed, will now have a more real meaning than it ever had before in its
bearing on the twelve periods of the Zodiac. The death of Christ "as
the sun went down on a Friday," has also in the light of this study a
fitness and a meaning which up to now may have been overlooked. In the Book
of Genesis we are told that "God rested from His work on the seventh
day." Now the seventh day, Saturday, is the symbol of Saturn, the last
of the "seven creative planets" and itself the symbol of "rest
from labor" resignation to the trials and toils of life-or
death-whichever way you like to employ the symbol. So in the eternal fitness
of things Christ also fulfilled this symbol by stopping His work at such a
moment, and passing into the shadow of death as the sun went down at His
crucifixion, and the period of Saturn commenced.
"On the first
day of the week, at the breaking of the day," again fulfilling the
meaning of the "seven creative planets," at the very moment on
that day, Sunday, which symbolizes the Sun,. Christ Himself, called the Sun
of Righteousness, rose from the tomb, even as the Ruler of our solar system
rose at the same moment from the shadows of the night.
In a
thousand and one ways this study demonstrates that the true secret of all
religion and all life may be found in the laws of Nature, which I have
indicated and alluded to in these pages. But, as in this practical age the
proof must be by its successful application to the affairs of everyday life
it is to accomplish this that I have worked for years to endeavor so to
apply these studies in such a simple way, that any person, even those who
have not the slightest knowledge of occultism in any form, may be able to
use the system given in this book, and, by a practical application of it to
the most ordinary things of everyday life, be so convinced of its truth that
they may in the end make it the foundation of all their actions.
The
business man need only experiment with it for a few months, when he will be
forced to notice how easily things turn for him on his day, he will be
struck with the strange fact that under his "fortunate numbers"
things will be favorable for his plans or for his business; and how much
more force or magnetism he will have at each of those periods of the year
that come under his own number, and especially so on his own day. He will
begin to notice how curiously the worst days of the week have been those,
whose numbers he now sees were not in accord with "his numbers."
He
will notice also that the same law applies to his own vitality and health,
how he has felt "down" at certain periods of the year, which he
will also notice came regularly when he has not been within the "favorable
periods" indicated for him.
Ultimately, if he is not a stupid
man or simply so narrow-minded or prejudiced that "even if an angel
came down from heaven he would not believe," he will begin to apply the
rules of this book to all his actions, he will no longer make appointments
at random, but will begin to choose the days on which he will draw up his
contracts, etc. He will then begin to notice how much easier the machinery
of his business works, he will no longer be the shuttlecock of what before
he called "chance", he will no longer "lose his head" or
be frightened when worries appear to come in from every side. Now he will
expect them at certain periods, and he will make his plans accordingly.
In
a little time he will notice how much more successful he has become, and
how, with less effort in every sense, more has been accomplished. He will
then begin to apply the same rules to his home, and will see to his
amazement how similarly they act. There will no longer be those disputes
that there used to be when he had nothing to guide him. He will know why to
expect those moments of depression and irritability, when the woman he loves
persists in telling him that everything is going wrong. He will no longer
seek solace at his club. Instead, he will quietly remember that "her
numbers" do not accord with the day or perhaps with his own, and will
put off the discussion and "the storm" until one of those "favorable
periods" which have so often helped him, and as the same magical result
takes place with the same regularity and order that it did previously, he is
tempted to throw open the window, and looking out into the night and upwards
toward the Infinite, he, for the first time, perhaps, will acknowledge that
from the smallest action to the greatest, the same law applies, and proves
the truth that the God who controls to a second of time the movements of
millions of worlds regulates also the actions of man.
To the most
unsuccessful this system will bring success, to the already successful it
will bring further success, and to one and all it will bring a new interest
in life, and a higher conception of life itself
After upwards of
fifty years' study of this subject, and after thousands of experiences and
experiments, I am so convinced of the truth of what I give in these pages,
that I only ask you but to give these rules a fair trial, and I am certain
that you will no longer ascribe the course of your life to " chance"-
to do so is to insult your Creator.
Up to now the difficulty has
been that so few have endeavored to reduce what is called Occultism to a
practical everyday application. No one before has attempted to translate or
interpret into "language understood of the people" the mystical
symbolism of such studies.
To this end I have worked, and if I may
judge by the number of letters I have received from those who have tried to
follow my teachings, I feel I have reason to hope that I have not labored in
vain. The following are a few extracts from letters I have received which
help to demonstrate that the truth contained in this study appeals to all
classes and conditions of people.
The Rev. W. L. Davidson, D.D.,
Superintendent of Instruction of the Chatauqua Organization (U.S.A.), wrote:
Cheiro
has so completely converted me by the extraordinary accuracy of his system
that I am compelled to forego my skepticism and am determined to study
further along these lines of thought
J. Hart Brougham wrote:
I
owe my life's success to what Cheiro has taught me.
J.B. Harvey, late
Assistant Attorney-General of the U.S. Government, wrote:
The
revelations made by your system are so extraordinarily accurate that they
compel belief
Mrs. J. W. Chapman says:
My life was a
continual maze of mistakes until you unfolded to me this system of numbers.
Since I commenced to apply it, all has changed, and I am to-day instead of
the failure I was, a successful woman even in a worldly sense, and a happy
woman in my home life.
J.W.B., London, writes:
Your system of
numbers has been tested by me for months, during my regular business
operations. At first I only regarded the favorable and unfavorable periods
and days you indicated with curiosity; finally, observation has shown me
that these periods were so absolutely exact, that they compelled not only my
belief, but my acceptance of your theories to such an extent that I now
never make an important appointment without seeing if the date accords with
my numbers.
These few extracts from widely differing classes will,
I hope, be sufficient to show that, strange though such a study may seem at
first, it can be practically demonstrated in everyday life and by all grades
and conditions of humanity, and in each case it makes towards the greater
fulfillment of life by the betterment, success, and happiness of all who
will but follow the rules laid down in these pages.
I am offering
to those who may read this book the results of long experience-of many years
of patient endeavor. I am convinced that if they will but put my teachings
to the test their will be that Heritage of Success which is the right of
every human being who endeavors by the pursuit of knowledge to make himself
more perfect.Cheiro's
Notes VI
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
THE
PLANETARY NUMBERS OF THE MONTHS
Although
later in these pages the reader will find how the single and compound
numbers have each their particular meaning in connection with human life, it
is well at this stage to understand how and why the months have received
their particular numbers.
The true solar year commences with the
Sun's entrance into the Vernal or Spring Equinox on the 21st to the 23rd day
of March of very year, and appears to pass through each Sign of the Zodiac
of 30 degrees each, one after the other, taking slightly under 365¼ day
in so doing, making our year popularly accepted as 365 days.
The
Earth, revolving once upon its own axis in each 24 hours, causes the whole
of the 13 Signs of the Zodiac in their turn to pass over each portion of the
Earth once each 24 hours. The Moon revolves round the earth in a lunar month
of 28 days. This wonderful mechanism, if I may call it so, is exactly like
the hour-hand, minute-hand and second-hand of a clock.
What is
called the first sign of the Zodiac is the "period of the number 9"
or the Zodiacal Sign of ARIES, from the 21st March to the I9th April. It is
ruled by the Planet Mars in its positive aspect, and has the 9 for its
number.
The "period of the number 6" is the Zodiacal Sign
of TAURUS from the 20th April to the 20th May. It is ruled by the Planet
Venus in its positive aspect, and has the 6 for its number.
The "period
of the number 5" is the Zodiacal Sign of GEMINI, from the 21st May to
the 20th June. It is ruled by the Planet Mercury in its positive aspect, and
has the 5 for its number.
The "period of the 2 and 7" is
the Zodiacal Sign of CANCER, from the 21st June to the 20th July. It is
ruled by the Moon in its positive aspect, and has the double figure 2-7 for
its number.
ZODIACAL
AFFINITIES
THE FOUR DIVISION OF THE ZODIAC
FIRE, WATER, AIR,
EARTH
THE FIRE TRIANGLE
1st
"HOUSE", March 21 to April 19.
2nd "HOUSE", July 21
to August 20.
3rd"HOUSE", November 21 to December 20
THE
WATER TRIANGLE
1st "HOUSE", June 21 to July 20.
2nd "HOUSE",
October 21 to November 20.
3rd "HOUSE," February 19 to March
20.
THE AIR TRIANGLE
1st "HOUSE", May 21 to
June 20.
2nd "HOUSE", September 21 to October 20.
3rd "HOUSE",
January 21 to February 19.
THE EARTH TRIANGLE
Ist "HOUSE,"
April 20 to May 20.
Ist "HOUSE," April 20 to May 20. 2nd "HOUSE,"
August 21 to September 20
3rd "HOUSE," December 21 to January
20.
The "period of the 1 and 4" is the Zodiacal Sign of
LEO, from the 21st July to the 20th August. It is ruled by the Sun in its
positive aspect, and has the double figure of 1- 4 for its number.
The
2nd "period of the number 5" is the Zodiacal Sign of VIRGO from
the 21st August to the 20th September. It is ruled by the Planet Mercury in
its negative aspect, and has the 5 for its number.
The 2nd "period
of the number 6" is the Zodiacal Sign of LIBRA from the 21st September
to the 20th October. It is ruled by the Planet Venus in its negative aspect,
and has the 6 for its number.
The 2nd "period of the number 9"
is the Zodiacal Sign of SCORPIO from the 21st October to the 20th November.
It is ruled by the Planet Mars in its negative aspect, and has the 9 for its
number.
The "period of the number 3" is the Zodiacal Sign
of SAGITTARIUS, from the 21st November to the 20th December. It is ruled by
the Planet Jupiter in its positive aspect, and has the 3 for its number.
The
"period of the number 8" is the Zodiacal Sign of CAPRICORN, from
the 21st December to the 20th January. It is ruled by the Planet Saturn in
its positive aspect, and has the 8 for its number.
The 2nd "period
of the number 8" is the Zodiacal Sign of AQUARIUS, from the 21st
January to the 21st February. It is ruled by the Planet Saturn in its
negative aspect, and has the 8 for its number.
The 2nd "period
of the number 3" is the Zodiacal Sign of PISCES, from the 19th February
to the 20th March. It is ruled by the Planet Jupiter in its negative aspect,
and has the 3 for its number.
This brings us back to the point from
which we started. Owing to the Sun passing from one Sign of the Zodiac to
another, seven days are allowed at the beginning of each sign and seven days
at the end, which is called the "Cusp of the Sign". During this
period the number of the month and the qualities it represents are not quite
so strong as during the rest of the period, and partakes to a certain extent
of the qualities of the Sign which is passing away with those of the one
that is coming into action.
It will be observed that the Planets
have a Positive and Negative quality in accordance with the period of the
Zodiac they rule; the Positive giving the more physical and forceful
qualities, the Negative the mental.
For example, the symbol of the
9 positive in the Sign of Aries is: A man in armor with his visor closed and
a naked sword in his hand.
The 9 negative in the Sign of Scorpio is
represented by a man also in armor, but with the visor up showing his face,
and the sword in its sheath, giving the picture of the mental warrior rather
than the physical.THE
NUMBERS GIVEN TO THE DAYS OF
THE WEEK ARE AS FOLLOWS:
| Sunday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1 - 4 |
| Monday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
2 - 7 |
| Tuesday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
9 |
| Wednesday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
5 |
| Thursday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
3 |
| Friday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
6 |
| Saturday |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
8 |
These numbers correspond to the Planets as follows:
| Sun |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
1 |
| Moon |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
2 |
| Jupiter |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
3 |
| Uranus |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
4 |
| Mercury |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
5 |
| Venus |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
6 |
| Neptune |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
7 |
| Saturn |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
8 |
| Mars |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
. |
9 |
The Sun and the Moon are the
only two Planets having what is called "double numbers," because
the Sun and Uranus are interrelated one to another, so the number of the Sun
is written as 1- 4.
The Moon being interrelated with Neptune is
written as 2-7.
A curious thing, and one well worth noting, is that
there appears to be sympathy and attraction between the numbers 1- 4 and 2-7
and it will be found that persons born under any of the 1- 4 numbers, such
as the 1st, 4th, 10th, 13th, 19th, 22nd 28th and 31st, are sympathetic and
get on well with people born under the numbers 2-7, such as the 2nd, 7th
11th, 16th, 20th, 25th, and 29th and more especially so if either of these
two sets of people is born in the "House of the Moon," namely,
between the 20th June and July 21st-27th, or in the "House of the Sun,"
between the 21st July and August 20th-27th.
NOTE.- I have
added the seven days of the "Cusp" to each of these periods.
Cheiro's
Notes VII
Excerpts From
Cheiro's Books of Numbers
CHAPTER
II
THE NUMBER 1 TO 9, CALLED THE SINGLE NUMBERS; HOW THEY INFLUENCE
MEN AND WOMEN, TOGETHER WITH THEIR HIDDEN MEANING, AND THE CHARACTER OF
PERSONS INDICATED BY THEM
There
is no getting away from the fact that there are only nine Planets in our
Solar System, also that there are only nine numbers by which all our
calculations on this earth are made. Beyond these nine numbers all the rest
are repetitions, as 10 is a 1 with a zero added, an 11 is 1 plus 1, a 2; a
12 is 1 plus 2, a 3; and so on; every number, no matter how high, can be
reduced to a single figure by what is called " natural addition"
from left to right. The final single number that remains is called the "spirit
or soul number" of all the previous numbers added together.
In
this first part of this study there are only nine numbers to be considered,
and one has but to master the occult meaning of each of these nine numbers
as they occur in the Birth dates of men and women to find a Key to secrets
of human nature that open a source of amazing interest.
I will
endeavor to write as simply as possible that all who read may clearly
understand what these numbers mean, even in the most everyday actions of
life.
Without going into any elaborate description of why this or
that influence has been given to any particular number, I will without more
preamble go straight to the subject, and show how each person may utilize
this information.
The nine numbers we have got to study are:1,
2,3,4,5,6,7,8, and 9. These numbers were given to the Planets that control
our system in the most distant ages of civilization, and have been used and
adopted by all students of occultism, Chaldean, Hindu, Egyptian, or Hebrew.
The
secret underlying the whole of this idea is that of the mysterious law of
vibration. The day of Birth giving a Key number that is related to the
Planet bearing the same number, this representing a vibration that lasts all
through life, and which may, or may not, be in accord with the "Name
number," which I will explain later, and with the vibrations of
individuals with whom we are brought into contact.
First we must
consider each number in relation to the Planet, it represents.
CHAPTER
III
THE NUMBER 1
The
number 1 stands in this symbolism for the Sun. It is the beginning-that by
which all the rest of the nine numbers were created. The basis of all
numbers is one-the basis of all life is one. This number represents all that
is creative, individual, and positive. Without going into further details, a
person born under the Birth number of 1, or any of its series, has the
underlying principles of being in his or her work creative, inventive,
strongly individual, definite in his or her views, and in consequence more
or less obstinate and determined in all they as individuals undertake. This
relates to all men and women born under the number 1, such as on the 1st,
10th, I9th, or 28th of any month (the addition of all these numbers making a
1), but more especially so if they happen to be born between the 21st July
and the 28th August, which is the period of the Zodiac called the "House
of the Sun," or from the 21st March to the 28th April, when the Sun
enters the Vernal Equinox and is considered elevated or all-powerful during
this period. It is for this reason, which you will observe has a logical
basis that, people born under the number 1 in these particular periods must
have the qualities that I have given to all number 1 people in a distinctly
more marked degree.
Number 1 people are ambitious; they dislike
restraint, they always rise in whatever their profession or occupation may
be. They desire to become the heads of whatever their businesses are, and as
departmental chiefs they keep their authority and make themselves respected
and "looked up to" by their subordinates.
These number 1
people should endeavor to carry out their most important plans and ideas on
all days that vibrate to their own number, such as on the 1st, 10th, 19th,
or 28th of any month, but especially in those periods, I have described
before, namely, from the 21st July to the 28th August, and from the 21st
March to the 28th April. Outside of their own numbers, number 1 people get
on well with persons born under the 2, 4, and 7, such as those born on the
2nd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th, 16th, 20th, 22nd, 25th, 29th, and 31st,
especially those born in the strong periods indicated.
The days of
the week most fortunate for number 1 persons are Sunday and Monday, and
especially so if one of their "own numbers" should also fall on
that day, such as the 1st, 10th, 19th, or 28th, and next to that their
interchangeable numbers of 2, 4, 7, such as the 2nd, 4th, 7th, 11th, 13th,
16th, 20th, 22nd 25th, 29th or 31st.
The most fortunate colors for
persons born under the number 1 are all shades of gold, yellows and bronze
to golden brown.
Their "lucky" jewels are the topaz,
amber, yellow diamond and all stones of these colors.
If possible,
they should wear a piece of amber next their flesh.
FAMOUS
PEOPLE BORN UNDER THE NUMBER 1
| Alexander the Great
|
Born 1st |
July |
Represents |
a |
1 |
| James I |
" 28th |
June |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Charles I |
" 19th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| George I |
" 28th |
May |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| George II |
" 10th |
Oct. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Duke of Wellington |
" 1st |
May |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| General Gordon |
" 28th |
Jan. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| President Garfield
(U.S.A.) |
" 19th |
Nov. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| "General"
Booth |
" 10th |
April |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Field-Marshal Earl Haig |
" 19th |
June |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Queen Alexandra |
" 1st |
Dec |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Field-Marshal Lord
French |
" 28th |
Sept. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| David Livingstone
|
" 19th |
Mar. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Lord Charles Beresford |
" 10th |
Feb. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Annie Besant. |
" 1st |
Oct. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| President Wilson
(U.S.A.) |
" 28th |
Dec. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| President Monroe
(U.S.A.) |
" 28th |
April |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| President Hoover
(U.S.A.) |
" 10th |
Aug. |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Orville Wright (Flying
Machines) |
" 19th |
Aug |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Sven Hedin (Explorer) |
" I9st |
Feb |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Chopin (Composer) |
" 1st |
Mar |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| William Dean Howells
(Author) |
" 1st |
Mar |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Bismarck |
" 1st |
April |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Sir Edwin Arnold
(Author) |
" 10th |
June |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Sir Robert Ball
(Astronomer |
" 1st |
July |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| John Calvin (Religious
Reformer) |
" 10th |
July |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Mary Anderson (American
Actress) |
" 28th |
July |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Alexander Dumas (Author) |
" 28th |
July |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Oliver Wendell Holmes
(Author) |
" 28th |
Aug |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| President Adams (U.S.A) |
" 19th |
Oct |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| "Cheiro" |
" 1st |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Delcasse (French
Diplomat |
" 1st |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| William Hogarth
(Painter) |
" 10th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Captain Cook (Explorer)
|
" 28th |
Oct |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Danton (French
Revolution |
" 28th |
Oct |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Goethe |
" 28th |
Aug |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Oliver Goldsmith |
" 10th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Ferdinand de Lesseps
(Engineer) |
" 19th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Thomas More (Irish Poet |
" 28th |
May |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Nansen (Arctic Explorer) |
" 10th |
Oct |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Sir Charles Napier
|
" 10th |
Aug |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Charles Stewart Parnell |
" 28th |
June |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Adelina Patti (Prima
Donna |
" 10t |
Feb |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Edgar Allan Poe (poet) |
" 19th |
Jan |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Lord Russell of Killowen |
" 10th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Sir H.M. Stanley
(Explorer |
" 28th |
Jan |
,, |
,, |
1 |
| Brigham Young (Mormon
Head) |
" 1st |
June |
,, |
,, |
1 |
Cheiro's
Notes VIII
Excerpts
From Cheiro's "Book of Numbers"
CHAPTER
IV
THE NUMBER 2
The
number 2 stands in symbolism for the Moon. It has the feminine attributes of
the Sun, and, for this reason alone, although number 1 and number 2 people
are decidedly opposite in their characters, their vibrations are harmonious
and they make good combinations.
Number 2 persons are gentle by
nature, imaginative, artistic, and romantic. Like the number 1 people, they
are also inventive, but they are not as forceful in carrying out their
ideas. Their qualities are more on the mental than the physical plane and
they are seldom as strong physically as those born under the number 1.
Number
2 people are all those who are born on the 2nd, 11th, 20th, or 29th in any
month, but their characteristics are the more marked if they are born
between the 20th June and the 27th July, this period being what is called
the "House of the Moon" I have added the seven days of the "Cusp"
to the 20th July.
Number 2 persons and number 1 vibrate together,
and in a lesser degree with number 7 people, such as those born on the 7th,
16th, or 25th in any month.
Number 2 persons should endeavor to
carry out their chief plans and ideas on days whose numbers vibrate with
their own, such as on the 2nd, 11th, 20th, or 29th of any month, but more
especially during the period of the 20th June to the 27th July.
The
days of the week more fortunate or "lucky" for them are Sunday,
Monday, and Friday (the reason Friday is favorable in this case is that it
is governed by Venus), and especially so if, like the number 1 people, one
of their own numbers should fall on either of these days, such as the 2nd,
11th, 20th, or 29th, and next to these their interchangeable numbers of 1,
4, 7, such as the 1st, 4th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 19th, 22nd, 25th, 28th,
or 31st.
The chief faults they should guard against are-being
restless and unsettled, lack of continuity in their plans and ideas, and
lack of self-confidence. They are also inclined to be oversensitive, and too
easily get despondent and melancholy if they are not in happy surroundings
For
"lucky" colors they should wear all shades of green, from the
darkest to the lightest, also cream and white, but as far as possible they
should avoid all dark colors, especially black, purple, and dark red.
Their
"lucky" stones and jewels are pearls, moonstones, pale green
stones, and they should carry a piece of jade always with them, and, if
possible, next their skin.FAMOUS
PEOPLE BORN UNDER THE NUMBER II
| Thomas Chatterton, the
Boy Poet |
Born 20th |
Nov |
Represents |
a |
2 |
| Swedenborg |
" 29th |
Jan. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Marie Antoinette, Queen
of France |
" 2nd |
Nov. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Gladstone |
" 29th |
Dec. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Queen Elizabeth of
Rumania (Poetess) |
" 29th |
Dec. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Sadi Carnot, President
of France |
" 11th |
Aug |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| General Boulanger
|
" 29th |
April |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Napoleon III |
" 20th |
April |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| King Victor Emmanuel III
|
" 11th |
Nov |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Edison |
" 11th |
Feb. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| David Garrick (Actor) |
" 20th |
Feb. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Lord Curzon of Kedleston |
" 11th |
Jan. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| Ibsen (Author) |
" 20th |
Mar. |
,, |
,, |
2 |
| William Lecky
(Historian) |
" 20th |
Mar. |
,, |
,, |
|
