One old scribbler of symbols taught me many enchantments which only tended to work evil. He performed other operations by means of Evil Spirits and certain secret fumigations, which were all odd. and of a triple proportion, in no way similar to the other, and for proof of this, he caused by such means in my presence a very fine tree which was near our Temple to fall to the ground, and all the leaves and fruits were consumed in a very short time. And he told me that in numbers there was hidden a very great Mystery, which I already had knowledge of, because that by means of numbers one can perform all the operations for friendships, riches, honors, love and all sorts of things, good and evil; and he assured me that he had tried them, and that some that he knew were very true for they had succeeded with him. With regard to this particular, I found out the reason through an ancient Hindu Priest, who told me that this came and depended from a Divine Mystery, that is to say, from the Qubalah, and that without that, one could not succeed. All these things have I beheld, and many others, and those who possessed these secrets gave them to me out of friendship.

I have never taught these recipes afterwards, they being absolutely things very far removed from the Will of God, and contrary to the charity which we owe unto our neighbor. Every learned and prudent man may fall if he be not defended and guided by the good spirits who advised and aided me, and prevented me from falling into such a state of wretchedness, and who led me undeserving from the mire of darkness unto the Light of the True Magic. I have known and felt the effects of the goodness of a certain Wise Hindu Priest, who, of his own free will, and before I had asked him so to do, accepted me for his Disciple. And before that I had declared my wish unto him he would accomplish and fulfil my desire; and all that I wished to obtain from him he knew before I could open my mouth. Also he recounted to me all that I had seen, done, and suffered from the time of my birth down to that moment; and this in words obscure as it were prophetic, which I did not then fully comprehend, but which I understood later.

He told me many things touching my good fortune and that my teachings would become famous in America, as they have, but which was the principal thing, he discovered to me the Source of the Veritable Magic, which according to their custom, I have in turn communicated unto my Disciples, in "The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism," after they have fulfilled the requisite conditions without the accomplishment of which the power and this Sacred Hindu Magic cannot be exercised, and which I have recounted in this volume. After he did manifest unto me the Regimen of the Mystery of that Sacred Hindu Magic which was exercised and put into practice by his forefathers and progenitors, Razizun, Uzujb, Iquzi and Tneby, among whom the last misused it, and he received the punishment thereof during his life.

In the Great Book of Magical Art I have described the whole faithfully and clearly, in order that if the Lord God should wish to dispose of me before these teachings shall have attained great use in this age, thou shalt find this great volume an inestimable treasure and a faithful master and teacher, because there are very many Powerful Secrets in the Symbols of this Book which I have made experiment of with mine own self and they are perfectly true, and which afterwards many of my Disciples which are in every country in the world have performed. I found no one who worked these things truly without this "Great Book of Magical Art," and although many have walked in the same path, nevertheless the Hindu Priest as a just Judge, did not in any way wish to grant unto them the Sacred Magic in its entirety, because they desired "The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism" to be published by myself. It matters not whatever religion you believe in you can arrive at the perfection of this work and become a Master, but he who hath abandoned Spiritual Law, and embraced Materialism, which is opposed to Spirit Magic, can never arrive at a state of happiness and condition of mind to be able to climb to the summit of this Sacred Art.

Dr. L. W. de Laurence,. Adept in Art Magic and Famous Magician by Alchemy and Fire.