Comparative Study of Types

Comparative Study of Types

Let me now study and interpret each of these Types of Finger Tips and combine them with smooth and knotted fingers.
A. The Pointed Fingers.
SMOOTH.
Poetry of soul and heart. Ecstatic religious feeling. Love of the “essence of beautiful things.” Called the “Psychic” fingers. No order in ideas or action. Often incurable laziness. But the gift of intuition.
WITH FIRST (UPPER) KNOT.
Struggle between inspiration and reasoning. The believer begins to doubt. The poet loses part of his genius. On the other side, inspiration is put to better advantage in the execution of works.
WITH SECOND (LOWER) KNOT.
Here the artistic gifts of a higher order are interfered with by a tendency to practicality which will not be silenced. The artist or poet will be more successful financially, but far from his pure ideal. WITH BOTH KNOTS.
The natural qualities of the pointed tips are lost to a great extent by these two knots, which drag down the lofty ideals of the smooth pointed fingers.
Inspiration will often be in the direction of inventions or discoveries. But as a rule, this discord will render the subject moody and dissatisfied.