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-~ ') -~ r, -c:-- ~ P----------------------------------------, The Mystic Test Book of ''The Hindu Occult Chambers'' THE Magic and Occultism of India Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing The Hindu Magic Mirror By DR. L. W. de LAURENCE Astral and Spirit Sight. The Wonders of the Magic Mirror. Clairvoyance. Inner Sight. Interior Focalization of the Mind. State of Introspection. Interior Concentra· tion. Astral Auras. Reading in the Astral Light. Telepathy. SPECIAL FEATURE Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing The de Laurence Company, Chicago, Ill., U. S. A. Copyright, 1909, by DR. L. W. de LAURENCE. Composition and Electrotyping by Peterson Linotype Co., March, 1909. Published April, 1909. NOTICE.""-This work is protected by Copyright, and simultaneous initial publications in United States of America, Great Britain, France, Gennany, Russia, India, China and other countries. All rights reserved. ii 'I'I-IE LIBRARY BRIGHAI\1 YOUNG CNIVERS~ PROVO, liT.tt. IJ Dr. L. W. de Laurence IS AUTHOR AND PUBLISHER OF THE FOLLOWING FA M 0 US BOOKS, WHICH ARE RECOG­ NIZED AS THE ONLY STANDARD WORKS PUBLISHED ON THESE SUBJECTS "The Book of Death, Hindu Spiritism, Soul Tran­ sition, and Soul Reincarnation"-F'The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Oc­ cultism"--."'The Book of Secret Hindu Ceremonial and Talismanic Magic"-"The Holy Bible De­ fended" (An Occult Interpretation of the Books of Holy Scripture, Raising the Astral Body of Sam­ uel, The Witch of Endor, etc.)-."Medical Hypnosis (Physician's Edition), Hindu Hypnotism"-"The Famous Secret Hindu Method of Hypnotising by Conjuring and Invoking Occult Forces and Astral Spirits"-"Practical Le.ssons in Hypnotism and Magnetism, Mysteries of Occultism Unveiled"­ "Mesmerism, Suggestive Therapeutics and Mag­ netic Healing"-"TheBook of Tanjore," exclusively for men-"The Genesis of the Hindu Adepts Yoghees and Master Lamas of Central and North­ ern India"-"India's Hood Unveiled or Spirit­ Sight-At-Will"-"Dealings with the Dead"-''The Brotherhood of Healers"-The Mystic Test Book of "The Hindu Occult Chambers"-"The Magic and Occultism of India." * * TEXT* * BOOKS* * FOR* *"THE * CONGRESS"* * * * "The Immanence of God"-"Know Thyself''­ "Text Book of the Congress of Ancient, Divine, Mental and Christian Masters"-"God, the Bible Truth, and Christian Theology." NoAuthor that ever lived has given to the world such a famous line of books on these subjects. -The Publishers. T he M ystic T est B ook of "The Hindu 0 ccult C hambers" T he M agic and O ccultism of I ndia The Mystic Test Book of "The Hindu Occult Chambers" Hindu and Egyptian Crystal Gazing Together With The Wonders of the Magic Mirror This work teaches the original and true science of Hindu Seership and "Spirit-and-Astral-Sight-At-Will." The Hindu can, by the use of the Crystal or the aid of the Magic Mirror, tell one's life from the cradle to the grave; he can, and does, by the use and aid of these mediums indicate medicine for dis­ ease, and perform many marvelous and mysterious things; the very same bein.g both good and evil. Many there are who have personally tested the Hindu and found that he possesses wonderful Astral and Esoteric Powers, gained only by the constant use of his Crystal and the aid of his Magic Mirror, which is his constant companion and helpmate. * * * * * * * * * * * * The author, in writing this treatise, has used some extracts and passages contained in his work "The Great Book of Magical Art, Hindu Magic and East Indian Occultism" as, of course, he had a perfect right to do, although this refers only to a very few pages in the fore part of this book. (The Publisher's Note.) Be Wise THE MYSTIC TEST BOOK OF "THE HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS" THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. PART ONE. CHAPTER I. HINDu AND EGYPTIAN CRYSTAL GAZING, ToGETHER WITH THE WoNDERs OF THE HrNDU MAGIC MIRROR.-CLAIRVOYANT V rsroN .-SPIRIT AND AsTRAL SIGHT. The most pitiful and yet the most grotesque sight that meets· the eye of today is the presump­ tuous fool, who does not stop to think that by his own actions, conduct, and very manner of living 2 MYSTIO TEST BOOK, HINDU OOOULT CHAMBERS. and believing he is persistently closing his inner or spiritual sight to the real possibilities of Life. These are concealed from him, because he has never developed his Inner or Soul Sight sufficient to realize or know that the most valuable asset in life is to "Know Thyself" and to se.e with the Inner o.r Spiritual Sight. This book gives real instruction and Indian teachings, as they are known in South India. He who really and truly desires knowledge, and is sincere, faithful and steadfast in his efforts to obtain it, will learn a great deal from this work. The half-brained, lazy, complaining foo~, who is always suspiciouS' of others robbing him, will learn nothing here nor from no other book. He who is eternally cTying and complaining, is he who disbelieves; and he who disbelieves, that is, has no belief or confidence in himself to learn some­ thing from a book, is like the fool who complained because he could not see, while at the sa.:rle time he was standing in his own light. So be careful that you are not guilty of stand­ ing in your own light. * * * * * As you delve into Hindu, Egyptian ancient mysteries the Spirit world will open before you. The mor·e you begin to understand the language THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 3 of the Adepts the more grows your conception of that life and world called Spirit, not seen by the outward sight. The Occultism, anatomy, physiology, and psy­ chology which they teach make of man something immeasurably greater than the puny and impo­ tent being known to modern science as a com­ pound of bones, muscles, and nerves. Modern science (materialism) attempts to prove that man is an animal; the teachings of the Adepts show that he may be a God. ~1:odern science invests him with the power to lift his own weight; ancient science (Occult Philosophy) invests him with the power to control the destiny of the world. Mod­ ern science allows him to live for a very limited number of years; ancient science teaches that he always existed, and will never cease to exist if he desires to live. 1fodern science deals with. the instrument that the real man uses as long and as often as he comes into relationship with the world of phenomena, and she mistakes that instrument for the man; the Adepts show you the true nature of the essential man, to whom one earthly exist­ ence is nothing more than one of the many inci­ dents of his eternal Spiritual career. · This ·power of spiritual perception is potentially contained in every man, but developed in few, is aln:;wst unknown to the guardians of science in 4 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS. our Western countries of modern civilization, because learning is often separated from wisdom and the inner or Spirit Sight, and the calculating intellect seeking for worms in the dark caverns of the earth cannot see the genius that floats· toward the light and it cannot realize his exist­ ence. And yet 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 Brah­ mins, Egyptians, and Greeks, and the Hindu Sages. Its fundam·ental doctrines are found in the Hindu Vedas and the Sacred Books of the East. Upon these secret doctrines rest the fun­ daments of the religions and secret orders of the world. They formed the essence of the S·ecrets 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 Hindu Adepts and Rosicrucians of the Middle Ages, and upon a partial understanding of their truths rests the system of modern Free­ masonry. · They are not to be confounded with speculative philosophy, that reasons from the known to that which it cannot know, trying by the flickering light THE MAGIC AND OCCULTISM OF INDIA. 6 of logic and orthodoxy to grope its way into the darkness, and to feel the objects which it cannot see. These doctrines were taught by the seers of old who possessed spiritual power and the inner sight to see. Such men were the great religious reform-ers of all ages, from Confucius and Zoroas­ ter down to Jacob Boehme and Eckartshausen, and their teachings have been verified by every one whose purity of mind and whose power of intellect have enabled him to see and to under­ stand the things of the spirit (God). Some of their doctrines refer to morals and ethics, others are of a purely scientific character; but both aspects of their teachings are intimately connected together, because beauty cannot be separated from truth. They both form the two pages of a leaf in the book of universal Nature, whose understanding confers upon the reader not merely opinions, but knowledge, and renders him not only learned, but illuminated with wisdom . and Spirit-Sight-At-Will. Among those who have taught the moral aspect of the secret doctrine there are none greater than Buddha, Plato, and Jesus of Nazareth; of those who have taught its scientific aspect there have been none more profound than Hermes, Trisme­ gistus, Pythagoras, and Paracelsus. They ob­ tained their knowledge not merely from following 6 MYSTIC TEST BOOK, HINDU OCCULT CHAMBERS.

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