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The Book of Magical Art, Hindoo Magic and Indian Occultism
Hindu Seals, Amulets, Charms, Benedictions, Enchantments, Exorcisms
Dr. L. W. de Laurence
Hardbound leather with gilt ink on cover.
647 pages with many ads in the back
Publisher: de Laurence, Scott & Co., Chicago
Date Published: 1914, Twelfth Edition, Revised.
Copyright date is 1915.
Two books in one!
Book I
THE GREAT BOOK OF
MAGICAL ART, HINDU MAGIC
AND
EAST INDIAN OCCULTISM
PLUS Book II
THE BOOK OF
SECRET HINDU, CEREMONIAL
AND
TALISMANIC MAGIC
IN ONE VOLUME
The first book
The Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism is a book of
Secret Instruction for the exclusive use of true and faithful Chelas (Disciples)
in the Hindu Magic, Indian Occultism, Celestial and Natural Magic, Cabalistical
Magic, Secret Hindu Magic, Magic Pentacles, the Manner of Constructing Them,
Alchymical Magic. The conclusion of Hindu and Talismanic Magic, in which
is fully given the KEY for the Practice and Composition of Hindu Amulets,
Charms, Seals Requisite for the perfection of all Talismanic, Ceremonial,
Hindu and Celestial Magic, Invocation and Binding of Astral Spirits,
Exorcism, Enchantments, Benedictions, Conjurations, Clairvoyancy and Hindu Mediumship
Author's Notice to his Disciple
There is a certain kind of MAGICAL ENERGY, based on the existence of a spiritual
world, placed without, not within you, and into communication with which you can
enter by the use of certain MAGICAL ARTS and practices, had long ago by the
High-Grade Adepts of India been demonstrated as a fact. That these Occult
forces can get hold of a person and break him down, attacking his soul in a
thousand places at the same self, is also proven. But that these influences,
both good and evil, may be dominated, so that they will obey the thoughts, answer
to the voice and understand the meaning of traced signs, is what many cannot
realize, and what their reason rejects; yet, this also is capable of being
demonstrated and proven.
The Student and disciple should always bear in mind that in trying to demonstrate
these thing for himself, he is working with unseen and powerful agents, which, if
he is not equally powerful-pure and high minded, loving his fellow men, and seeking
to benefit mankind, rather than seeking or desiring powers and benefits for himself
he had much better be dead than to try any of these things for gratification of his
personal nature; for in seeking to harm another - curses like chickens soon come home
to roost, with a much greater force than the original impulse.
The conjuration of the evil spirits of the astral plane SORCERY and WITCHCRAFT
means practically a full realization of "Faust and the Demon." There are many
strange things set forth in the following pages, almost too strange to believe,
yet because one is ignorant of their existence, it does not follow that they are
not real, as the sad records of Sorcery and Witchcraft, of Voodooism and Black Magic
abundantly testify.
Chapter titles in book I are:
The King and the Disciple
The Great Spirit
Thou Art Admonished for thy Soul's Sake
Natural Magic
Alchymy .. Alchymical Magic
Talismanic Magic .. The Composition of Talisman's
Mummial and Magical Attraction .. The First Principle of Magic
Cabalistical Magic .. Mysterious Secrets of the Cabala
The Book of Secrets
Ancient Biographies
A caution to the inexperienced in this Art, and a Word of Advice to those who
would become Adepts.
It is necessary for me to inform thee, that whatever thy desires are in the pursuit
of this Art, which I call MAGIC, so wilt thy connexion and answer be. If in the
pursuit of revenge, it is but proper thou shouldest know that thou wilt, in any
of these experiments here laid down, draw to thyself a revengeful demon; or an
infernal furious spirit, serving in the principle of the wrath of God. Therefore
seek for that which is good; avoid all evil either in thought, word, or action.
There are two ways MAGICALLY set before thee; chuse which thou wilt, thou shalt
be sure of thy reward.
A few excerpts from Book I
THE EFFICACY AND VIRTUE OF PERFUMES
There are certain suffumigations made from Temple Incense and used by almost all
The High-Grade Adepts. For if any one shall hide gold, or silver, or any other
such like precious thing and shall perfume the place with Temple Incense, that
thing which is so hid shall never be taken away therefrom, but that spirits shall
continually keep it; and if any one shall endeavor to take it away by force, thay
shall be hurt, or struck with a frenzy. And there is nothing like fume of spermaceti
for the raising up of spirit; therefore if a fume be made of that lignum aloes,
pepperwort, musk, saffron, and red storas, tempered together with the blood of a
lapwing or bat, it will quickly gather airy spirits to the place where it is used;
and if it be used above the graves of the dead, it will attract spirits and ghosts
thither.
A paragraph from A GENERAL EXORCISM OF THE SPIRITS OF THE AIR
These things being duly performed, there will appear infinite visions, apparitions,
phantasms, beating of drums, and the sound of all kinds of musical instruments;
which is done by the spirits, that with the terror they might force some of the
companions out of the circle because thay can effect nothing against the exorcist
himself; after this you shall see an infinite company of archers, with great
multitude of horrible beasts, which will arrange themselves as if they would devour
the companions, nevertheless, fear nothing.
Then the exorcist, holding the pentacle in his hand, let him say, Avoid hence these
iniquities, by virtue of the banner of God. Then will the spirits be compelled to obey
the exorcist, and the company shall see them no more.
The chapter Ancient Biographia deals with
ROKTABIJA, THE SON OF CHAMUNDA
SURNAMED TRISMEGISTUS HERMES, or the Thrice Greatest Intelligences
APOLLONIUS TYANA with some account of his remarkable Miracles, Prophecies,
Visions, Relations
PETRUS DE ABANO, OR PETER OF APONA Doctor of Philosophy and Physic
APULEIUS The Platonic Philosopher
ARISTOTLE The Peripatetic
ARTEMIDORUS OF EPHESUS The Somnambulist, or Dreamer
BABYLONIANS
HENRY CORNELIUS AGRIPPA, Knight, Doctor of both laws, Counselor to Charles V.,
Emperor of Germany, and Judge of the Prerogative Court
ALBERTUS MAGNUS
ROGER BACON Commonly Called Friar Bacon
RAYMOND LULLY A Famous Alchymist
GEORGE RIPLEY
JOHN AND ISAAC HOLLANDUS
Book II
THE BOOK OF SECRET HINDU, CEREMONIAL AND TALISMANIC MAGIC
From the Preface
This ancient science (Occultism), which the modern ignore, is as old as the world.
It was known to the ancient prophets, to the Arhats, and Rishis of the East; to
initiated Brahmins, Egyptians, and Greeks. Its fundamental doctrines are found
in the Hindoo Vedas as well as in the Holy Bible. Upon these doctrines rest the
fundamentals of the religions of the world. They formed the essence of the secrets
that were revealed only to the initiated in the inner temple, where the ancient
mysteries were taught, and whose disclosure to the vulgar was forbidden under
the penalty of torture and death. They were secrets known to the ancient sages
and to the Adepts and Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages, and upon a partial
understanding of their truths, rests the system of modern Freemasonry.
An excerpt from the chapter on MAGIC AND SORCERY
MUMIA is a vehicle that contains the essence of life
If we eat the flesh of animals, it is not their flesh that forms again blood and
bones in our bodies, but the invisible vehicle of life derived from the flesh of
these animals which is taken up into our own bodies and forms new tissues and organs.
The Mumia of the dead body is useless, and the Mumia that is prepared by embalming a
corpse is good for nothing but to serve as food for worms. The most efficacious Mumia
is that of a person who died in an unnatural manner while his body was in good health.
Such a one, for instance, as has been hung or decapitated, or whose body has been
broken on the wheel.
A person who dies a slow death in consequence of some disease, loses his powers before
he dies, and putrefaction begins often in such cases even while the patient is still
alive. His Mumia will then be worthless.
On account of the great occult power contained in the Mumia, it is used in witchcraft
and sorcery.
Witches and sorcerers may make a bargain with evil spirits, and cause them to carry
the Mumia to certain places, where it may come into contact with other people,
without the knowledge of the latter, and cause them harm.
They may take earth from the graves of people who have died of the plague, and infect
other people with it.
They may also infect the cattle, spoil the milk, and cause a great deal of damage, and
the injured people do not know the cause of the evils that afflict them.
Case example: The owner of a bewitched cattle was advised to take a sample of the milk
of each cow, to mix it in a pan, to boil it over a slow fire, and to whip it with
a rod of blue steel while it was boiling down, and to throw the rest away.
This advise he followed, and on the next day a person of bad repute was met, having
his face covered with bloody streaks as if they had been inflicted with a rod. This
man could not give a satisfactory account of the origin of his marks, and it is
supposed that he was the punished sorcerer. The trouble then ceases.
From the chapter VAMPIRISM .. WITCH CRAFT AND BLACK ART .. THEIR DANGERS,
AND HOW TO AVOID THEM
All advanced Occult students and Hindu sages believe as firmly as do the Servians in
Vampires
So long as the astral form is not entirely liberated from the body there is a liability
that it may be forced by magnetic attraction to re-enter it. Sometimes it will be only
half-way out, when the corpse, which presents the appearance of death, is buried.
In such cases the terrified astral sole violently re-enters its casket, and then,
one of two things happens - either the unhappy victim will writhe in the agonizing
torture of suffocation, or, if he has been grossly material be becomes a vampire.
The bicorporeal life begins, and these unfortunate buried cataleptics sustain their
miserable lives by having their astral bodies rob the lifeblood from the living persons.
The ethereal form can go wherever it pleases; and so long as it does not break the link
which attaches it to the body, it is at liberty to wander about, either visible or
invisible, and feed on human victims. According to all appearance, this "spirit"
then transmits through a mysterious and invisible cord of connection, which perhaps,
some day may be explained, the results of the suction to the material body which lies
inert at the bottom of the tomb, aiding it, in a manner, to perpetuate the state of
catalepsy.
The spectre of a village herdsman, near Kodom, in Bavaria, began appearing to several
inhabitants of the place, and either in consequence of their fright or some other
cause, every one of them died during the following week. Driven to despair, the
peasants disinterred the corpse, and pinned it to the ground with a long stake.
The same night he appeared again, plunging people into convulsions of fright,
and suffocating several of them.
Then the village authorities delivered the body into the hand of the executioner,
who carried it to a neighboring field and burned it. "The corpse," says des Mausseaux,
quoting Dom Calmet, "howled like a madman, kicking an tearing as if he had been alive.
When he was run through again with sharp pointed stakes, he uttered piercing cries,
and vomited masses of crimson blood. The apparitions of this spectre ceased only
after the corpse had been reduced to ashes."
Officers of justice visited the places said to be so haunted; the bodies were exhumed,
and in nearly every case it was observed that th corpse suspected of vampirism looked
healthy and rosy, and the flesh was in no way decaying.
The principle difficulty consists in learning how these vampires can quit their
tombs, and how they re-enter them, without appearing to have disturbed the earth
in the least; how is it that they are seen with their usual clothing; how can they
go about and walk and eat? If this is all imagination on the part of those who
believe themselves molested by such vampires, how happens it that the accursed
ghosts are subsequently found in their graves exhibiting no signs of decay, full
of blood, supple and fresh? How explain the cause of their feet found muddy and
covered with dirt on the day following the night they had appeared and frightened
their neighbors, while nothing of the sort was ever found on other corpses buried
in the same cemetery?
How is it again that once burned they never reappeared, and that these cases should
happen so often in this country that it is found impossible to cure people from this
prejudice; for, instead of being destroyed, daily experience only fortifies the
superstition in the people, and increases belief in it.
The persons who turn Vampires generally are wizards, witches, suicides, and
persons who have come to a violent end, or who have been cursed by their parents
or the church.
The chapter on Dreams and Visions gives an extensive list of what different dreams mean.
Chapters in Book II are:
A Restitution of Stolen Robes
What are the Facts? .. The Ethics of Paganism .. The Luminous Star of Bethlehem
Spiritualism and Religion
Lessons in Adeptship .. Clairvoyance and Mediumship
Magic and Sorcery .. Dreams Visions
Astral Influence .. Pneumatology
Philosophy of Disease and Medicine
Puraumrum .. The Five Causes of Disease
Mediaeval Philosophy and Theology
Vampirism .. Witch Craft and Black Art .. Their Dangers and How to Avoid Them
The Mystery of Breath
The Influence of Astral Colors
The Symbol of Jewels
Dreams and Visions
Glossary .. Definition of Occult Terms
There are many black & white illustrations in the beginning of the book, including
a "Gallery of Famous Occulists and Magicians.
This book is in good condition, the pages are clean and bright with much wear to it's
front and back covers and part of the cover of the spine is missing.
Part of the spine cover has been saved and resides inside the front page of the book.
All front and back covers are intact, and there are no loose pages.
There is a prominent smokey odor to the book, I cannot tell if it is from wood smoke or
cigarette smoke. Some pages are dog-eared and some even have dried herbs tucked between
them.
The spine itself is sturdy and all pages are solid and intact.
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