E. A. Koetting and Baron DePrince - The Spider and The Green Butterfly

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
from your body, into the crossroads, and finally into
Guinea, where you will observe all that you have requested
to see.
When you have returned to your self, and when
your senses have returned to you, you will without doubt
begin to doubt, sowing seeds of your own fall. Record
what you have seen immediately after returning, either by
speaking it to another or by writing it on paper, not
questioning the validity or sense of any of it, but simply
accepting that your sight has not failed you. Only in time
will you learn to trust that which you see and hear, as you
will question all things once you have had time to
intellectually analyze the experience; but in the moment of
the vision, no questions remain.
Chapter Seven
Powerful Concoctions
"Fillet of a fenny snake, in the cauldron boil and
bake; Eye of newt and toe of frog, wool of bat and tongue
of dog, adder's fork and blind-worm's sting, lizard's leg and
owlet's wing, for a charm of powerful trouble, like a hellbroth
boil and bubble. Double, double toil and trouble; fire
burn and cauldron bubble." - Shakespeare's Macbeth
The Houngan and the Bocor have received from the
Loa, from the spirits, and from their journeys to the
backside of the Tree of Life many combinations, both of
physical materials with one another and of spiritual matter
with physical matter, which produces a startling reaction in
the physical environment and reality of the Sorcerer. Like
so many aspects of Vodoun, our western culture has created
fantasies around the actuality of these rites of power that