The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
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The Square of Sevens - Edward Prime-Stevenson
Edward Prime-Stevenson
The Square of Sevens: An Authoritative Method of Cartomancy with a Prefatory Note
EAN 8596547121107
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Table of Contents
Editorial Preface
THE SQUARE OF SEVENS
OF SPADES
"
TO JOHN DAVIS ADAMS
this new forth-setting of an old mystery is cordially offered.
Editorial Preface
Table of Contents
'Tis easy as lying.
—Hamlet
It is safe to presume that even the most inquisitive book-hunters of the present day, and few of the fellowship during two or three generations past, have encountered the scarce and curious little volume here presented, as in a friendly literary resurrection—Robert Antrobus's The Square of Sevens, and the Parallelogram.
Its mathematical title hardly hints at the amusement that the book affords. With its solemn faith in the gravity of its mysteries, with its uncertain spellings and capital-icings such as belong to even the Eighteenth Century's early part, with its quaint phrases and sly observations (all the time sticking strictly close to business), it has a literary character, as well as me occult, that is quite its own.
Fortune-telling with cards and belief in fortune-telling with cards—like a hundred greater and lesser follies of the mind—were straws floating along the current of British life, intellectual and social, during the reign of George the Second. This was the case, in spite of the enlightening influences of religion, science, and philosophy. Modish society was addicted to matters over which argument was hardly worth while—in which respect we find modish society the same in all epochs. Our ancestresses particularly were often charming women, and almost as often sensible women; but, like the men of Athens, they were too superstitious. Often were they such in a fond and amusing degree. Lady Betty or Lady Selina—for that matter, even Sir Tompkin and my lord Puce—might be spirited men and women of the world. But they did not repudiate the idea of ghosts. They abhorred a mirror's breakage. They disliked a Friday's errand. They shuddered over a seven-times sneeze or at a howling dog at midnight. And the gentle sex, especially, would and did tell fortunes almost as jealously as play quadrille and piquet. Let us be courteous to them. Let us remember that Esoteric Buddhism, Faith Healing, and Psychic Phenomena were not yet enjoying systematic cultivation and solemn propagandism; and that relatively few dying folk were allowed to go on with their dying
as part of a process of healing which excludes medicine and insists on the conviction that the invalids are not ill!
But to