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L. W. De Laurence

(De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-)

Lauron William de Laurence (31 October 1868 – 11 September 1936) was an American hypnotist, occult author and publisher, and a self styled spiritual authority who gained notoriety in the early 20th century as both a cult leader and promoter of esoteric teachings. He was arrested multiple times over the course of his career, most notably in 1912 for operating the Order of the Black Rose, a cult accused of physically and mentally abusing its members, distributing narcotics, and engaging in trance induced orgies, ritual whippings, and hypnotic domination. Despite these controversies, de Laurence became a prolific occult author and mail-order publisher and salesman. His works, particularly his widely circulated edition of the Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses , had a lasting influence on magical practices throughout the African diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean.. (From Wikipedia)

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"Keiro's" palmistry : clairvoyance and psy-cho-metry, combined with sub-sections from Ed. Heron-Allen's practical hand-book of "cheir-os-ophy" and m. le capitaine C.S. d'Arpentigny's famous French manual, the "Science of the hand," introduction and commentary on the text and the science of cheirosophy and palmistry ... (De Laurence, Scott & Co., 1910), by Charles yates Stephenson (page images at HathiTrust)

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De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-, ed.: "Magic": Black and White; Charms and Counter Charms; Divination and Demonology Among the Hindus, Hebrews, Arabs and Egyptians (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott and co., 1910), by T. Witton Davies
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De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-, ed.: The Philosophy of Natural Magic (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott and Co., 1913), by Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim, contrib. by Henry Morley (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Practical Lessons in Hypnotism and Magnetism: Giving the Only Simple and Practical Course in Hypnotism and Vital Magnetism Which Starts the Student or Practitioner Out Upon a Plain, Common Sense Basis, Prepared Especially for Self-Instruction (Chicago: De Laurence Co., c1937) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The Sacred Book of Death, Hindu Spiritism, Soul Transition and Soul Reincarnation (students' occult edition; Chicago: De Laurence, Scott and Co., c1905)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The Sacred Book of Death, Hindu Spiritism, Soul Transition and Soul Reincarnation (Chicago: Benares India Pub. Co., c1905) (multiple formats at archive.org)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-, ed.: The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses: The Mystery of All Mysteries (Chicago: De Laurence, Scott, and Co., 1910)
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De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Book of secret Hindu, ceremonial, and talismanic magic (De Laurence, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The cave of the oracle. The great white brotherhood. Persian and Chaldean magic. Talismanic magic. Occultism. Seals and talismans; their construction, powers and influence. Dreams, visions, omens and oracles. Healing. Telepathy, clairvoyance, spiritism and Bible contradictions. (De Laurence, Scott and co., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Clairvoyance and thought-transference. (De Laurence, Scott & co., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Clairvoyance and thought-transference. (De Laurence, 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Crystal-gazing and spiritual clairvoyance (De Laurence, Scott & co., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Greater Key of Solomon (s.n., 1916), also by King of Israel Solomon (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Hypnotism, and magnetism, mesmerism, suggestive therapeutics and magnetic healing ... (De Laurence, Scott & co., 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The illustrated key to the tarot : the veil of divination (de Laurence, Scott & Co., 1916) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The Illustrated Key to the Tarot: The Veil of Divination, illust. by Pamela Colman Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The illustrated key to the tarot, the veil of divination, illustrating the greater and lesser arcana, embracing: the veil and its symbols. Secret tradition under the veil of divination. Art of tarot divination. Outer method of the oracles. The tarot in history. Inner symbolism. The greater keys. (De Laurence, 1942) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-, ed.: The lesser Key of Solomon, Goetia, the book of evil spirits : contains two hundred diagrams and seals for invocation and convocation of spirits, necromancy, witchcraft and black art (Gutenberg ebook)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Magic, white and black; or, The science of finite and infinite life, containing practical knowledge, instruction and hints for all sincere students of magic and occultism (De Laurence, Scott and co., 1910), also by Franz Hartmann (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The mystic text book of "The Hindu occult chambers"; The magic and occultism of India; Hindu and Egyptian crystal gazing; The Hindu magic mirror. (De Laurence, Scott & company, 1909) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The sacred book of death, Hindu spiritism, soul transition and soul reincarnation (The Benares India publishing co., 1905) (page images at HathiTrust)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: The sacred book of death, Hindu spiritism, soul transition and soul reincarnation (De Laurence, Scott, 1944) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
De Laurence, L. W. (Lauron William), 1868-: Superstition in all ages; a dying confession (De Laurence, Scott & Co., 1910), also by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, Anna Knoop, Voltaire, Jean Meslier, and Divine Congress of Ancient (page images at HathiTrust)

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