The Mystic Test Book of the Hindu Occult Chambers

About this book

A magic mirror, a crystal and an array of printed tests promise to reveal information hidden from ordinary sight. L. W. de Laurence gathers these methods under the theatrical name of the Hindu Occult Chambers.

Published in the early twentieth century, the manual belongs to a trade in practical occult instruction that freely borrowed the authority of distant cultures. Its supposed Indian and Egyptian sources should not be accepted without evidence. Charts and procedural details show how the publisher transformed divination into something presented as a repeatable exercise. The equipment is simple; the claims attached to it are enormous.