The Human Heart Shown as a Temple of God and the Holy Spirit or a Workshop of the Devil and Evil Spirits — L. W. de Laurence (1935)

Published in 1935, The Human Heart Shown as a Temple of God and the Holy Spirit or a Workshop of the Devil and Evil Spirits by L. W. de Laurence uses a stark religious allegory to depict the moral condition of the inner life.

The heart is presented symbolically as a chamber shaped by thought, desire, habit, and allegiance. In one condition it becomes a temple ordered toward divine presence, discipline, and virtue; in the other it becomes a workshop of confusion, temptation, and destructive influence.

The work reflects the visual and devotional tradition of moral diagrams in which spiritual states are represented through contrasting emblems. It will be of interest to readers of religious symbolism, occult publishing, moral allegory, and the unusual catalog of de Laurence.

Historical Note
The language of spirits and moral danger belongs to the religious framework of the period and is presented here as historical symbolic literature.

Details
Author: L. W. de Laurence
Publication year: 1935
Subjects: Religious allegory, the human heart, moral symbolism, spirits, virtue, and temptation
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