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

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
and the sacrifices, they are there, consuming the force and
the subtle matter that has been laid down before them.
It is then the hands of the spirits that touch the altar
and transfer inordinate power into the wood, rather than the
hands of the Sorcerer. It is their joining of limbs around
the altar that calls down from heaven and up from hell all
of the powers of Magick into your sacred Temple. It is the
alchemical knowledge known only by the spirits that
transmutes the elements of the wood into particles of light,
opening the altar as a gateway into the Eternal.
Chapter Three
Walking with Spirits
Life inside of the Vodoun current is drastically
different than that life which we take for granted when we
are firmly planted in the physical world. Through years of
training, various initiations, and through a lifetime of
communion with entities and forces which are, to most,
unseen, the Houngan walks between the planes, operating
both here in the physical as well as in the spiritual realms,
each foot steadily maintaining this balance.
This permanent bilocation is observed nowhere
more profoundly than in Haiti itself. Although the vast
majority of Haitians are lost in poverty, war, and starvation,
struggling to keep their hold on their most basic primitive
needs, there are also many Sorcerers packed onto this
island who walk with the spirits, who consistently walk
between the worlds. Those who can see do indeed
recognize that Haiti, the island, the land that existed before