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Secrets of Occult Sciences

Dr. L.R. Chawdhri, a retired superintending engineer and prolific writer on Indian astrology who signed himself Tantra Samrat, gathered the practical branches of the occult sciences into this 1990 Sterling Publishers handbook. Opening with the twelve birth sun signs and their temperaments, lucky days, numbers, and colours, it moves through physiognomy, the reading of moles on the body, the interpretation of dreams and omens with examples drawn from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, and the Bhagavad Gita, the twitching of body parts as an omen, handwriting analysis, lucky charms and Tantric articles, crystal gazing, and the mystic eye. Chawdhri's stated aim is easy consultation for the layman, astrologer, and palmist alike, and his tone is that of a working counsellor, mixing sign-by-sign character sketches with rules of thumb on fasts, days, and colours, and defending the subject against sceptics with the famous exchange in which Newton answered that he had studied astrology and so believed in it. This OCR-recovered scan reproduces the complete 153-page Sterling printing, a period handbook of popular Indian divination.

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