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E.A. <strong>Koetting</strong>/<strong>Baron</strong> <strong>DePrince</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Spider</strong> <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Green</strong> <strong>Butterfly</strong><br />
<strong>The</strong>y knew that both magical forces, the light <strong>and</strong><br />
dark, held many advanced technological secrets. Both<br />
schools of magick begin to notice, however, that mankind<br />
was becoming more war-like <strong>and</strong> that every nation seemed<br />
to want control their neighbors through various apocalyptic<br />
war machines. Atlantis was not exempt from this will to<br />
power. <strong>The</strong>y wanted to exp<strong>and</strong> their control <strong>and</strong> dominion<br />
beyond this earth to other planets <strong>and</strong> over other beings.<br />
<strong>The</strong> masters of magic, seeing this deadly drama<br />
unfolding in spirit visions, began warning that such actions<br />
would cost Atlantis its very existence. <strong>The</strong> masters began<br />
to make plans to preserve their secret wisdom by<br />
transforming themselves into fish <strong>and</strong> other sea creatures.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Masters of the light decided to become fish <strong>and</strong><br />
birds to stay close to l<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Masters of the dark<br />
forces decided to go very deep under the ocean into the<br />
darkest part of the sea, far from man's prying eyes.<br />
<strong>The</strong> elders <strong>and</strong> the intellectually <strong>and</strong> psychically<br />
advanced citizens of Atlantis who wanted nothing to do<br />
with such suicidal plans decided to leave Atlantis before its<br />
destruction in vessels that could travel to other worlds, in<br />
hope for peace <strong>and</strong> for the ability to increase their<br />
knowledge <strong>and</strong> underst<strong>and</strong>ing of the universe <strong>and</strong> their<br />
place in it.<br />
As was prophesied, Atlantis was destroyed. Many<br />
think it was by a meteor, although it is often claimed that<br />
they destroyed themselves internally before even beginning<br />
their quest for empirical domination.<br />
But the powerful Magicians of Atlantis survived.<br />
<strong>The</strong>y climbed out of their hiding places in the ocean to<br />
walk on soil again, in the distant Isl<strong>and</strong>s of Africa, Egypt,<br />
India, <strong>and</strong> most of all in Haiti.<br />
While the western occultists, just barely coming<br />
into the knowledge of Sorcery, were attempting to study<br />
cryptic Grimoires through Judeo-Christian spectacles, the<br />
Sorcerers of Atlantis stood on Haitian soil <strong>and</strong> taught the<br />
eager disciples the worship of the Loa <strong>and</strong> the revival of the<br />
spirits. <strong>The</strong>y gave the secrets of traveling behind the Tree<br />
of Life <strong>and</strong> entering a hidden gateway to Hell, wherein they<br />
could master its darkest magick <strong>and</strong> return to the physical<br />
reality with the knowledge of power.<br />
It was those dark masters of Atlantis Magick who<br />
rose from the sea <strong>and</strong> walked <strong>and</strong> taught to the first masters<br />
of magick how to conduct the most powerful Vodoun<br />
Sorcery magick that is still even more powerful today.<br />
Although the above is what is told to the initiate, by<br />
the sea on the full moon, the story does not end there. It is<br />
an undisputed fact in Haiti that powerful Vodoun magick<br />
was responsible for the Haitian Revolution, <strong>and</strong> has held<br />
complete control over the area since.<br />
Haitian Vodoun is a product of the slave trade.<br />
Slave traders forbade slaves to practice their native<br />
religions. This was enforced by various forms of torture,<br />
<strong>and</strong>, if forced conversion failed, by death. Many slaves,<br />
therefore, "found Christ," <strong>and</strong> were baptized into the<br />
Catholic faith. <strong>The</strong> rites <strong>and</strong> symbols of Catholicism<br />
quickly became superimposed on native rites <strong>and</strong> beliefs,<br />
which were still practiced in secret.<br />
<strong>The</strong> religious suppression of the slaves continued<br />
until the Haitian revolution of 1791. As a result of the<br />
religious persecution that the French government<br />
administered with an iron fist, tribal deities, or Loa, took on<br />
the forms of Catholic saints, the icons of Christianity being<br />
used to procure the ancient connection to the Vodoun<br />
forces. As had been prophesied centuries previous, a<br />
complete inversion of good <strong>and</strong> evil had taken place.<br />
<strong>The</strong> mixture of Africans brought to Haiti as part of<br />
the slave trade saw the addition of the saints as an<br />
extension of their faith, <strong>and</strong> incorporated Catholic statues,<br />
c<strong>and</strong>les <strong>and</strong> holy relics into their rituals.