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

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
Why would he reveal the single secret that had
brought him to such power, fame, and wealth? I never
understood until many years later, one early morning as I
was jogging through New York City's Central Park. The
answer hit me like a lighting bolt out of the sky. And that
answer forever changed me.
He had to set the record straight. He had to return
an answer for all of the rumors and gossip that his
seemingly intrinsic mystery had created. He had to clear
the air, and at least attempt to clear his soul.
Introduction
Baron DePrince
"20 years is a long time to keep a secret."
It was 28 years ago when I heard those words
spoken by one of America's leading mentalists, Max
Maven. It was a time when I was performing on stage as a
mentalist and hypnotist. It was the crossroads when I
decided to stop performing and instead devote my life to
the "Le Secret Science," as we Houngans call it. I was
finally following the path and the steps of one of my
greatest mentors, Franz Bardon, as he had found himself at
the same crossroads and had turned away from this world
and began his journey into another.
When Max spoke those words I could not
understand it at the time. He certainly was not revealing
his secrets for money or fame. He had enough of that
already. Here was a man who at the height of his
profession wanted to reveal his most precious secrets to the
insiders of his profession. Precious and powerful secrets
that made him famous, wealthy, and very well respected
among his associates. Secrets that had remained unspoken,
but the effects of which were definitely not unseen.
I have been a Vodoun Priest for most of my adult
life and have learned many strange and wonderful secrets.
I have seen, have held, and have used the powerful occult
Vodoun secrets, secrets for which many people have lost
their lives, or worse, their sanity, searching for. Powerful
secrets that can bestow upon its users godlike powers if
mastered correctly.
These Vodoun secrets are so potent, so real, that in
order to learn them I had to take a spiritual and physical
blood oath to never reveal them, and to always conceal
them from all but brother Houngans and my students. Such
oaths are not taken lightly - not by the Houngan or by the
Spirits.
Why, then, am I risking life and possible retaliation
by revealing such things to the outside world?
I have a record to set straight as well. Unlike Max,
however, the record that needs correcting is not with my
associates, my audience, or my business partners. The
record that I need to set straight is with the whole of the
occult world.
Vodoun "Priests" and "Priestesses," "Queens" and
theorists have spun a web upon which the Black Spider
himself is ready to climb out of the shadows and into the
waiting world.