WHAT EUROPEAN PROPHETS FORTELL FOR 1915.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 20, 12 March 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

WHAT EUROPEAN PROPHETS FORTELL FOR 1915.

MME. de THEBES PREDICTS THE END OF THE WAR AND THE DOWNFALL OF THE KAISER'S RULE.

Madame de Thebes, of Paris, the palmist who claims to foretell the future by the hands of those she examines, has published her forecast for 11)15.

She foretells, among many other things, that the war will be over between March and duly, and that the Hohenzollern family will cease to reign in Germany. Incidentally she denies indignantly that she foretold that the Kaiser would die on September 29 last, but points out that in 1913 she foretold the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Madame de Thebes is the most noted of living prophets. She made her great reputation when she foretold the great Charity Bazaar lire that was to throw Paris into mourning. She has a picturesque and attractive personality, and fashicnable visitors from all over the world flock to have their hands examined. Here are somo of her principal prophecies for 1915: "Before the sun runs its third course in 1915 blood will cease to flow. The results of the war will be titanic. Through a difficult arrangement the result will be very different from what France expects, though for the others the enuivalent will be realised.

" Surprise will succeed surprise. France will have to listen to two sorts of men. She must know how to choosp. If she listens to her own generous traditions then only will she become the pacific queen of the earth. If not, well, 1 must not say more. She must watch, however, for at the moment of peace negotiations destiny is watching. " In Paris there will he feverish emotion and delirium. There will be triumphal arches. AYhat power can save us from violent conflict as a result of misunderstanding, if dry-hearted men fail to listen to the country's aspirations and her rights acquired by those who spill their blood in her defence? "Who is that man whose sword will be broken? Who is that woman whom vengeance pursues, and who will die miserably and not alone? "Summer and autumn will be such as the history of Paris has never known. About this time a scourge menaces us, hut prudence probably will win, Paris setting the example in the struggle. "Paris will lead a crusade to extend the race. Women will be less frivolous and will pay more attention to their homes.

"A singular fate awaits a man originally from central France. He will be caught in an extraordinary imbroglio at the moment of peace negotiations. "The Kaiser's rule will soon be ended. He dies soon or else disappears, Germany will cease to exist in her present form. I see one Germany tearing itself to pieces.—North against North, South against South. There will be revolution fury against the Junker military aristocracy. Germany will try to resist, in parody of France of bygone -lays even unto her revolution —hostages, massacres, judgments and scaffolds, all. I see another Germany which pretends to yield, accepting the conditions of the victors and gaining time by multiplying intrigues and paralysing the attacks against her, only to restart her own attacks with new forces. "In either event, the Hohenzollerns are gone. I have seen the hand of William 11. T won't say how or when. I saw his right hand only. This is the hand of volition. His left hand is that of a fatalist —withered and smaller than the other, on an arm shorter than his right. This weakness William has sought to conceal all his life. His right hand is dry if one feels it long. The phalanx, alas, is large, indicating sanguinary tastes. The little finger is imaginative. The others seem normal, but have abnormally concave phalanges. Day light shows between the fingers unless they are tightly pressed together. This is a sign of untruthfulness. His hand is of a Mercurian and Jupiterian type. There are countless lines on the lingers which are furrowed to the very tips. The hand is unevenly articulated. There are numerous hollows. The ensemble indicates a short rather than a long life. "If the Kaiser does not fail mentally, ho will probably break down physically. The mounts in the base of the fingers are large, showing a facility for assimilations. The life line scarcely touches the heart lino, which finishes in a fork near the lunar mount. "He has an unthinkably inventive mind, and groat vanity, but is easily carried away by sentimental reveries. The luck line is good, the ascensional reaching the wrist to the angular, and there suddenly breaking off between crosses of stars, denoting the fortune of tho renowned man is doomed suddenly t-i fall —as he is even now falling. Tho head line finishes equally suddenly where it touches the luck lino. I will say nothing of tho lines from the mounts of Luna and Venus, only that they confirm reports as to the man. Tho two especially striking features of his hand are the broken luck line and the head line characteristic of destiny, suddenly broken by insanity or suicide. "Do not forget that tho Kaiser's paternal grand-uncle died insane. Oddly enough, and despite the unfavourable ensemble of his hand, his life line is good. This strange prince may disappear, to survive elsewhere, buried and hidden.

" The hour soon will strike when Italywill be compelled to draw her sword. will be forced so lo do. Since it is already known that I was once called to Italy under tragic circumstances to give my humble opinion concerning the destiny of a person high in the human scale I may say that I have additional reasons for believing in the magnificent future of the reigning house. •'However clanger menaces it. Feminine hate, which nothing disarms, pursues it. There will be abundant tears. There will be great destruction of things —in artistic Southern Italy in particular —around the summer solstice. " For Francis .Joseph —de profundis. This sinister old man is even now dead to the world. The world has called him venerable: Vienna knows better of his private life and its scandals. His wife hated him. He was cruel to the point of torture, even with his own son, Rudolph, whose death was attributed to him."

the leading astrologers and prophets of London, including Raphael, Zadkiel, and "Old Moore/' have also published their forecasts for the year 1915.

As might be expected, these works contain many references to the war. Of particular interest is the horoscope of the declaration of war by Germany against Russia, published by Professor Zadkiel, showing that the heavens foretold the character of the conflict. The horoscope is dated Petrograd, August 1, 15)14., 7 p.m. Capricorn is rising in the sixth degree, and Uranus in the ascendant in nine degrees. Aquarius is in opposition to the sun in 8 degrees of Leo, Mercury and Neptune are also setting.

Saturn, ruler of the ascending sign, is cadent in the sixth house, and a malefic I'ranus dominates the ascendant in opposition to the sun, which is strong in its own sign, Leo. representative of the receiver of the declaration of war.

In his forecast of events for the coming winter, Professor Zadkiel says:— "The British antl French navies and ai mies will be victorious over their enemies. Some at temps may be made by German ."-pies and their anarchist confederates to do mischief in London, Oxford, Nottingham, Sheffield, Sunderland, Plymouth, York, the west of England, Scotland, and in the west of Ireland."