How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart.
- Samuel R. Wells
- Date:
- 1890, ©1868
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: How to read character : a new illustrated hand-book of phrenology and physiognomy, for students and examiners : with a descriptive chart. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![XXXI.—SPIRITUALITY. (7.) Very Large.—You have strong intuitive perceptions of what is right and best; have faith in spiritual monitions ; and are most likely to take the true course when you alloAV yourself to be guided by what you internally feel to be the right way. A morbid or undue action of this faculty may lead you to become superstitious; to blindly believe in dreams, omens, fortune-telling, and false prophecies, or to induce leligious fanaticism. It must be properly regulated, and made to act ill harmony with reason, though it may transcend it. Restrain. [80.] (6.) Large.—You have a large measure of faith; an internal con- sciousness of right, duty, truth, falsehood, and what is best; love to meditate on spiritual subjects—the immortality of the soul, the future life, the existence and perfections of God, and the destiny of man; eiijoy spiritual communion, or the blending of soul with soul; and, if Veneration be large, find ecstatic happiness in fervent adoration of tlie Deity. In certain states of the physical system, one may be natur- ally clairvoyant; be forewarned in visions or in dreams ; perceive the higiiest truths b}' intuition, and even possess prophetic gifts. One must carefully guard against the perversion of this noble and exalted faculty (see 7), and not allow our living faith to degenerate into superstition, or our piety to become mere fanaticism. Restrain. [80.] (5.) Full.—You are not lacking in the ground-work of faith ; have a good share of spiritual feeling, and considerable intuitive inspiration; but do not always allow yourself to be guided by the premonitions which would lead you ariglit. You desire to believe in all truth, but are sometimes beset by doubts. Cultivate. [80.] (4.) Average.—You are not destitute of the light within; have some spiritual monitions, and are not inclined to disregard the guidance of the internal sense ; but your intuitions are not always sufficiently distinct to insure their full influence, or j^our belief in their authority so implicit as to make them very potential in your life. Cultivate. [80.] (3.) Moderate.—The spiritual part of your nature is not so influen- tial as would be desirable; you have rather indistinct perceptions of s'piritual things; lack faith ; beheve little that can not be logically proved; rely on evidence rather than on intuition; and would ''prove all things in order to hold fast that which is good. Cultivate. [80.] (2.) Small.—You have very weak perceptions of spiritual truths; must have proof before believing ; are not guided b}^ faith—a doubting Thomas; have no premonitions or warnings, and do not believe in them. Cultivate. [80.] (1.) Very Small.—You are nearly destitute of the spiritual senti- ment—believe little or nothing; are skeptical in regard to a future life ; ridicule the idea of revelations from Heaven, and treat premonitions and warnings with contempt. Cultivate. [80.]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21083824_0181.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
