The Sacred Book of Death: Hindu Spiritism, Soul Transition and Soul Reincarnation

About this book

A book about death may promise practical information about what happens after burial. The Sacred Book of Death presents its answers through an elaborate mixture of Indian-sounding terminology and Western occult beliefs.

Associated with the de Laurence publishing world, the volume belongs to a market that packaged ideas of spirit travel, reincarnation and soul transformation as ancient instruction. Its claims about Hindu sources require particular scrutiny. The book records the kind of spiritual geography an occult publisher believed would sell, and the authority borrowed from faraway traditions to make that geography seem certain.