The Sacred Book Of Death | by Lauron William De Laurence
Hindu spiritism soul transition and soul reincarnation. Exclusive instruction for the personal use of Dr. De Laurence's chelas (disciples) in hindu spiritism, soul transition, reincarnation, clairvoyancy and occultism
| Title | The Sacred Book Of Death |
| Author | Lauron William De Laurence |
| Publisher | De Laurence, Scott & Co. |
| Year | 1905 |
| Copyright | 1905, L. W. De Laurence |
| Amazon | The Sacred Book of Death - Hindu Spiritism Soul Transition and Soul Reincarnation |
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By Dr. L. W. De Laurence, Master Adept and Famous Occult Magician, by Alchemy and Fire, Author Of "The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism" "The Book of Secret Hindu, Ceremonial and Talismanic Magic," "The Holy Bible Defended:" (An Occult Interpretation of the Books of Holy Scripture, Raising the Astral Body of Samuel, The Witch of Endor, etc.) "Medical Hypnosis," (Physicians Edition), "Hindu Hypnotism" etc.
Hindu Sanscrit- The ancient language of the Hindus, and the oldest and rood primitive of the Indo-European tongues. It has long since ceased to be a living language but in it most of the literature of the Hindus is w...
- Preface
- Death and Magic have always been contemporary and always shall be in every age of the world. Death and Soul Transition, Spirit Communication and Magic were contemporaneous with the birth of man in thi...
- Introduction
- The teachings of East Indian Occultism are the True Wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the True Secrets of Spirit Magic, and he but buildeth upon a foundation of sand, and his buil...
- Symbols
- 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 ...
- Chapter I. Spiritism
- From the Sanscrit writing of the Hindu new ideas and new words which are needed, in order to secure clearness of language by avoiding the confusion inseparable from the employment of the same term for...
- Spirit Doctrine
- Spirit doctrine, like all new theories, has its supporters and its opponents. I shall endeavor to reply to some of the objections of the latter, by examining the worth of the reasons on which they are...
- Earliest Manifestations
- The earliest manifestations of intelligence were made by writings of Sanscrit through Hindu mediums. Even here, it must be confessed, there was nothing very convincing for the incredulous, as these ap...
- Chapter II. The Link Or Perispirit
- The link, or perispirit, which unites the body and the spirit, is a sort of semi-material envelope. Death is the destruction of the material body, which is the grossest of man's two envelopes; but th...
- The Language Of Spirits
- It is easy to distinguish between good and bad spirits. The language of spirits of superior elevation is constantly dignified, noble, characterized by the highest morality, free from every trace of e...
- Chapter III. Hindu Spiritism
- The positive sciences are based on the properties of matter, which may be experimented upon and manipulated at pleasure; but spiritist phenomena are an effect of the action of astral spirits who have ...
- Hindu Spiritism. Continued
- The characteristics of serious study are the method and the perseverance with which it is carried on. Is it strange that sensible answers are not always obtained from spirits in reply to questions whi...
- Spirit Manifestations
- But, in fact, is it possible to believe that God would permit only the Spirit of Evil to manifest himself, and this in order to ruin us, without giving us also the counsels of good spirits as a counte...
- The Identity Of The Spirit Evoked
- If, then, the identity of the spirit evoked may be established, to a certain extent and in certain cases, there is no reason why that identity may not exist in others; and although we may not have the...
- Definition Of Soul
- Let us take, for example, the definition of soul. That word, having no fixed meaning, spirits like ourselves may differ in the meaning they give to it. One of them may say that it is the principle of...
- Chapter IV. Insanity
- There are persons who see danger in everything that is new to them, and who have, therefore, not failed to draw an unfavorable conclusion from the fact that some of those who have taken up the subject...
- Dread Of The Devil
- Fear must also be reckoned among the causes of madness. Dread of the devil has deranged many a brain; and who shall say how many victims have been made by impressing weak imaginations with pictures of...
- Manifestations In India
- But there is yet another circumstance to which sufficient attention has not been given. The earliest manifestations, in India, as in other countries, were not made either by writing or by speech, but ...
- Occult Phenomena
- Phenomena which are inexplicable by any known physical laws are occurring all over the world, and revealing the action of a free and intelligent will as their cause. Reason tells us that an intellige...
- Advice From Astral Spirits To Dr. De Laurence
- Be zealous and persevering in the work you have undertaken in conjunction with us, for this work is ours. In the teachings you are to give the world, we shall lay the foundations of the new edifice w...
- Chapter V. Death
- The elements of the soul of man in their very nature are such that they are a substantial psychic organism which extends throughout the entire physical body, permeating the whole nervous system. Agai...
- Advanced Students Of Occultism
- Those who deserve to be numbered among the advanced students of Occultism must first realize this great truth, for ye may fail to fulfill a law, but none of ye can break or destroy a law by skepticism...
- Astral Guides And Spirits
- When the human soul passes fully into its great astral existence, the Clairvoyant and Spiritual graces of the soul will henceforth rule. The whole soul of man becomes transformed and for the first tim...
- Pseudo-Philosophers
- One of the great and glaring errors of our pseudo-philosophers is in regard to the first beginning cause. But let me illustrate to you the following example cloaked with their ignorance. The natural ...
- Sacred Caste Of India
- To further illustrate the fallacy of Western mathematics you are continuously adding one fraction to another and heaping up certain amounts of gold to an everlasting eternity without the slightest or ...
- Western Teachings
- Religion in the Western churches contains no immortality. The continuation of the soul after death to many of its members is a mere fanciful philosophy and it comes to them as a dim shadow. Neverthele...
- The Fear Of Death
- The fear of death by those persons who believe in the future life is altogether misplaced, but when people from birth have been thoroughly indoctrinated into the belief that there is a Hell as well as...
- The Faculty Of Vision Among Spirits
- The faculty of vision among spirits is a property inherent in their nature, and which resides in their whole being, as light resides in every part of a luminous body. It is a sort of a universal lucid...
- Proofs Of Immortality After Death
- Evidence adduced to demonstrate a peaceful and happy state beyond the tomb Death brings every human being face to face with the greatest mystery known to man. It is that which closes all the scenes...
- Alone Were He And She
- She is dead they said to him, Come away! Kiss her and leave her, thy love in clay. And they held their breaths, as they left the room With a shudder, to glance at the stillness and gloom. But he w...
- Spirit Manifestations In Mystic India
- I have witnessed Spirit manifestations in many parts of Mystic India. Spirit communication is normal to the open soul, and its highest conditions are as strong in the sacred atmosphere of home and fri...
- Chapter VI. God
- God is the power and cause of all things and the Supreme Intelligence. Many have said that God is infinity, but it should be remembered that God is infinite in His Power and Perfections of all thin...
- Supreme Intelligence
- The proof that you have that the first cause of all things is a Supreme intelligence superior to all other intelligence lies in the old maxim, which says, The workman is known by his work. Gaze arou...
- Chapter VII. Soul And Body
- Soul and body become united at the very moment of conception, and is completed at the time of birth. Before conception a given entity or spirit is preordained to become reincarnated in a body. At the ...
- "Graves Of The Dead"
- The soul is always affected by the remembrance by those whom they loved and cared for during their Earth Life, far more than the ordinary person has any idea; for, if they are happy on earth, this rem...
- Chapter VIII. "Dreams"
- The human soul while on the Earth Plane never rests like the body during sleep, for the soul is never inactive. The bonds which unite it to the body are relaxed during sleep, and as the body does not ...
- Wise Men Of The East
- During deep sleep the soul rests, for the time being, in a state and condition in which it will be after death. Those spirits who at death are promptly freed from the physical body are those who durin...
- The Practical Student Of Occultism
- The practical student of Occultism (and what I mean by this is an individual or soul who is sincere in their desire to learn and become developed in an Occult and spiritual way, for there is nothing b...
- Spirit Counsel And Advice
- It may be remarked, where is the use of this counsel and advice since we do not remember it after we have awakened, or how can we profit by it; but it should be remembered that this advice comes from ...
- Occult Auros And Astral Waves
- During the act of Dreaming, the fragments of Mental Impressions and Images float about, like the motes that dance in the sunbeams to the Central Sun. Touching each other, they blend and adhere to each...
- Chapter IX. Death Trance
- During the state of Death Trance, an individual always sees, and hears what is taking place around him, but at the same time he is unable to manifest himself through the outward organs, but it is not ...
- Living Interment
- A case of living interment which came under the author's notice in India was that of a young Hindu of low caste, about thirty years of age, who took an Indian drug called Cannabis Indica or Indian Can...
- Soul Sight
- Astral Spirits of low degree do not see and comprehend everything, for, as you know, they still share their errors and their prejudices; and, in the next place, as long as they remain more or less att...
- Second Sight
- Second-sight usually occurs spontaneously. The will nevertheless often plays an important part in producing this phenomenon. Take, for example, the persons who are called fortune tellers - and some of...
- Natural Somnambulism
- Natural somnambulism is a notorious fact, the reality of which few now dispute, notwithstanding the marvelous character of the phenomena it presents. Why then, should self-induced somnambulism be rega...
- Phenomena Of Somnambulism
- In the phenomena of somnambulism, whether natural or self-induced, Providence furnishes us with undeniable proof of the existence and independence of the soul, by causing us to witness the sublime spe...
- Emancipation Of The Soul
- The emancipation of the soul occurs sometimes in the waking state, and gives to those who are endowed with the faculty designated by the name of second-sight, the power of seeing, hearing and feeling,...
- Astral Spirits
- Astral Spirits take up very little time in transporting themselves through space from one point or place to another, as their motion is as rapid as that of thought, and really their thought is whereve...
- Spirits Of The Third Class
- Among spirits of the third class there are some who are inactive and neutral, not doing either good or evil. Others, on the contrary, take pleasure in evil and are delighted when they find an opportun...
- Chapter X. Benevolent Spirits
- The dominant quality of benevolent spirits is kindness. They take pleasure in rendering services to men and in protecting them, but their knowledge is somewhat limited as they have progressed in moral...
- Influence And Sight Of Spirits
- Spirits are able to penetrate the innermost thoughts of mankind if they choose, as they are continually around him, but no disembodied spirit sees only those things to which it directly gives its atte...
- Spirits Of Evil Influence
- The spirits who influence and incline us to evil by putting our firmness into rectitude have not received a mission to do so, and they themselves are responsible for this evil and wrongdoing of this m...
- "India's Idols"
- The idols are not worshiped, but fulfill A part in representing to the mind The great idea, which is but enshrined Within the heart, though dimly. He who bows In India to an idol, will arouse And...
- Chapter XI. Casting Out Evil Spirits
- Many people speak of casting out devils or demons. The truth of this saying depends upon the meaning you attach to the words devils or demons. If you mean by that term a bad spirit who subjugates a hu...
- Affection Of Certain Spirits For Certain Persons
- The affection of certain spirits for certain persons is not one of exclusive sentiment, for true affection has nothing of carnality; but when a spirit attaches himself to a living person it is not alw...
- Spirit Protectors
- There are certain spirits who attach themselves to a particular person in order to protect and help him. These are what are termed the spirit brother, spirit protector or the good genius of a person, ...
- Revelation
- Would that you were more fully impressed with this truth; how often would it aid you in your moments of need; how often would it save you from the snares of evil spirits; but at the great day of accou...
- Evil Spirits Unite To Neutralize The Action Of The Good Ones
- If a spirit abandons his ward and no longer watches over him he will never do him any harm, as good spirits never do harm to any one. They leave that to those who take their place and you then accuse ...
- Chapter XII. Familiar Spirits
- From the above explanations of the nature and possibilities of Spiritism, which are the results of years of meditation and observation, as well as communication with all kinds of nature of spirits on ...
- Presentiment
- Is a presentiment always a warning from the spirit guardian? you may ask. A presentiment is a counsel privately addressed to you by a spirit who wishes you well. The same may be said of the intuition ...
- Presentiment. Continued
- And, in all cases, if you can show them, by your patience, that you are able to rise superior to their machinations they will cease to attack you, seeing that they gain nothing by so doing. Experience...
- Pacts With Spirits
- Pacts with spirits of the Astral Plane is sympathy between an evil nature and evil spirits. For example, you wish to torment your neighbor, but you know not how to set about it, and you therefore call...
- Chapter XIII. Sorcerers And Conjurors Of Spirits
- A bad man with the aid of evil spirits under his orders can cause harm to his neighbors, and certain persons who possess strong Occult and Magnetic Powers of which they may make bad use are always sec...
- Classification Of Spirits
- The classification of spirits is based upon the degree of their advancement, upon the qualities which they have acquired, and upon the imperfections from which they have still to free themselves. This...
- Chapter XIV. Revealing The Future
- The future life with its happenings and events is always hidden from the blind materialists, but this in itself is a wise provision and the future is never opened to any man unless he has developed hi...
- Description Of The Planets By Astral Spirits
- According to the statements of Astral Spirits this planet, as regards the physical and moral qualities of its inhabitants, is one of the least advanced of all the globes of our solar system. Mars is s...
- Spirit Of A Child Who Dies In Infancy
- The soul of a spirit or of a child who dies in infancy advances in spirit life greater than does that of an adult, for this soul may have previously lived longer and acquired more experience before it...
- Sex Of Spirits
- Spirits do not have sex, as this term is used upon the Earth Plane, for sex in that sense depends on the corporeal organization. Love, Affection and Sympathy, it is true, exist among spirits, but is f...
- Moral Likeness
- The spirit and soul of parents are not without-influence upon the soul of their offspring after its birth, as they exercise on the contrary a very great influence upon it. As I have already told you s...
- Chapter XV. Loss Of Those We Love
- Many think that the loss through death of a loved one who is near and dear to us is a legitimate source of sorrow, as this loss is both irreparable and independent of our action, but this cause for an...
- Chapter XVI. Resurrection Of The Body
- The doctrine of the resurrection of the body is an implication of that of reincarnation, as now taught by spirits, for it could not be otherwise, and it is in regard to that expression as to many othe...
- Theological Dogma
- It is true that, according to the theological dogma, this resurrection is not to take place until the Last Day, while, according to spiritist doctrine, it takes place every day; but is not this pict...
- Chapter XVII. Earthly Joys And Sorrows
- Human souls during their existence on the Earth Plane are often the cause and in reality are the artisans of their own bodily afflictions and affections; they are also the instigators and the artisans...
- Chapter XVIII. Paradise, Hell And Purgatory
- The joys and sorrows of spirits are inherent in the degree of perfection at which they have arrived. Each spirit finds in himself the principal of his happiness or unhappiness; and, as spirits are eve...
- Reserved For Spiritism
- It was reserved for spiritism to give, in regard to all these points, an explanation which is at once, and in the highest degree, rational, sublime, and consoling, by showing us that we have in oursel...
- Chapter XIX. Suicide
- Suicide is caused by that peculiar mental state which sometimes takes possession of an individual without any assignable reason, but as a rule it is brought about through idleness and an abnormal desi...
- Self-Abandonment
- Such self-abandonment is suicide; but those who had caused the crime, or might have prevented it, would be more to blame for it than the one by whom it had been committed, and the latter would therefo...
- Consequences Of Suicide
- The consequences of suicide vary in different cases, because the penalties it entails are always proportioned to the circumstances which, in each case, have led to its commission. The one punishment w...
- Chapter XX. Evil Passions
- Every person should understand that the Passions have their origin in man's nature, but they are not evil of themselves; for it is only by induling to excess that they become evil, for excess implies ...
- Destructive Calamities
- The reason why God visits mankind with destructive calamities is to make human souls advance more quickly, for have I not told you that destruction is necessary to the moral regeneration of spirits, w...
- Chapter XXI. Selfishness
- Selfishness is considered the cardinal sin among all vices and may be regarded as the root and origin of them; for from selfishness everything evil proceeds and if you study the sins and vices of mank...
- Spiritism Combats Selfishness
- Of all human imperfections, the most difficult to root out is selfishness, because it is connected with the influence of matter, of which man, still too near his origin, has not yet been able to enfra...
- Know Thyself
- The surest and most efficacious method of insuring the moral improvement of the soul's present existence, thereby resisting the influence and attraction of evil spirits, is to Know Thyself, and this...
- Eternal Suffering
- Spirits will suffer eternally if they remain eternally wicked; that is to say, if he were never to repent nor to amend, he would suffer eternally. But God has not created beings to let them remain for...
- "Eternal Punishments"
- Wars of words, wars of words, has not enough blood been already shed for words, and must the fires of the stake be rekindled for them? Men dispute about the words eternal punishments, everlasting...
- Boiling Caldrons
- When the principle of indiscriminate retaliation has been banished forever from human legislation, can you hope to make men believe that principle to be the rule of the Divine Government? Believe me, ...
- Terrific Tortures
- The doctrine of eternal punishment makes an implacable God of the Supreme Being. Would it be reasonable to say of a sovereign that he is very kind, very benevolent, very indulgent, that he only desire...
- Chapter XXII. Reincarnation
- The writer does not wish to be understood as meaning that Reincarnation or Eastern Spiritism doctrine is of modern invention; on the contrary, as the intercommunication of spirits with men occurs in v...
- Future After Death
- I take it for granted that those whom I am addressing believe in some sort of future after death and that they do not look forward either to annihilation or to a drowning of their soul in a universal ...
- Hindu Philosopher
- Two manufacturers had each a workman who might hope to become some day the partner of his employer. But it happened that both these workmen made so very bad a use of their time that they merited dismi...
- Adept And Christian
- The true Adept and Christian endeavors to enlighten, moralize, and civilize mankind; but for one whom he is able to enlighten, there are millions who die every year without the light having reached th...
- Chapter XXIII. Lessons In Hindu Spiritism And Magic
- Whoso should wish to recount all the Arts and Operations which in these times be reputed and preached abroad as Wisdom and Magical Secrets; he should as well undertake to count the waves and the sands...
- The Genuine System And Method Of Hindu Spiritism
- The genuine System and Method of Hindu Magic, and Spirit Invocation advocated and given in the following pages of THE BOOK OF DEATH is the Hindu manner of Teaching Invocations, which of course, make...
- Confidence
- Of all hindrances to Magical action, the very greatest and most fatal is unbelief, for its checks and stops the action of the Will. Even in the commonest natural operations we see this. No child could...
- Chapter XXIV. Instruction For The Invocation And Convocation Of Spirits
- Occult Treasures, Occult Powers and Instructions in Sacred Magic have been buried and concealed under the centuries of the eternal past, far from the reach of the dizzy and unsteady hand of the Materi...
- Sacred Magic
- Sacred Magic teaches him the true nature of his soul and that his earthly existence is-merely an experience in his Eternal Life and career. The Occult Spirit Powers of the soul which are potentially c...
- Spiritual Power
- Each man is the essence of Spiritual Power and he should know that he possesses Spiritual Power as well as the Physical force; that he possesses one kind of knowledge as well as another and if he does...
- Gaming
- Also you shall shun gaming as you would the plague, because it ever is an occasion of Blasphemy. Also during these studies and instructions prayer and the study of the Sacred Books of Scripture should...
- Spirit Magic
- All that I am about to say unto you now is not superfluous, because it is certain that any one who shall have observed with a true heart and firm resolution the advice which I have given regarding Spi...
- Consecrated Wand
- In order to make a consecrated Wand, procure unto thyself a piece of birdseye maple wood the length of 14 inches. The same should be shaved and polished down until it is about five-eighths of an inch ...
- Invocation
- If during the Invocation they should appear with tumult and insolence fear nothing; neither give way to anger, but appear to make no account thereof. Only show them the Consecrated Wand, and if they c...
- The Prayer
- Adonai, Elohim, El, Eheieh Asher Eheieh, Prince of Princes, Existence of Existences, have mercy upon me, and cast Thine eyes upon Thy servant (here call your own name) who invoketh Thee most devoutly...
- Chapter XXV. Sacred Magic
- 1. Take heed before all things to perform no Magical Operation whatsoever, or Invocations of the Spirits unless necessary on the Sabbath Day, during the whole period of your life, seeing that that day...
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