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

E.A. Koetting/Baron DePrince
The Spider and the Green Butterfly
when they are called, regardless of your degree of
initiation, and the energies will surge around you despite
the fact that they have never been sworn into your service.
The Vodoun current specifically, however, simply
happens to be much more erratic, and its energies and
entities are much more tangible than most other systems.
The spirits are much closer to this physical world than even
those of Solomon or Sumer. Enough centuries have passed
in their presence and enough blood has been spilled on their
altars to allow them to achieve a near critical mass, their
place just beyond the veil of vision being one of preference
rather than boundary. They know that the Black Magician
is going to attempt to summon them before the event, and
likely even before the Sorcerer himself knows his own
future actions. They see all, they know all, and they are
standing right next to you, waiting to exalt the acolyte and
to devour the profane.
In order to have full access to these powers, you
must first be inserted into the Vodoun current.
A physical initiation into Vodoun usually must take
place in Haiti, under the tutelage of a Vodoun Priest, and is
only had after years of study, and after having proven your
ability to commune with the spirits and to direct the powers
of Magick in accordance with either your own will, or the
will of the spirits which may work through you.
A good deal of Westerners, especially from the
United States, will travel to Haiti to seek out some Bocor or
a lesser Vodoun practitioner who will claim to initiate
them, for a healthy fee, of course. These seekers most
often find themselves tricked, robbed, and sometimes
harmed. Some have disappeared shortly after leaving the
airport and setting foot on the cursed and Magickal island.
The world of Haiti is not our world, and it does not operate
by the same laws and principles as ours.
You can never buy initiation. You can never gain
initiation by impressing a Vodoun Priest. You can never
obtain initiation by asking. If you physically search for
initiation, you will never find it. If you are ready to be
initiated, the Houngan will find you.
I pleaded with Baron DePrince to reveal some
secret sign which could be placed in this text that would
automatically allow the readers full access to the Vodoun
power stream, or some ritual of self-initiation that could be
performed. Making one of his standard trips to Haiti to sit
with his Council of Priests and Kings, he returned with a
Veve, a secret seal, which would protect the one who opens
it, as well as other initiatory rituals which would allow any
who dare reject my initial admonitions to leave this Magick
to intellectual curiosity only. This seal will not open the
floodgates for you, for once you step upon the crossroads
of power this will be so. This first Veve will only preserve
your life and a fraction of your sanity as you dive into the
abyss.
In a way, we have collaborated in creating with this
text various methods by which a person can effectively use
this Magick, without being first initiated into the Vodoun
current.
The most powerful actual and often physical
deterrent to delving fully into the world of the spirits is
wrought from the spirits themselves, from the very forces
and entities which the Sorcerer is attempting to ally himself
with. After procuring all of the necessary ritual and
worship items given in this text and saturating them with
the powers herein, before engaging in any further rituals
put forth in this book, it is necessary as your first ritual act
to consecrate the first Veve given in the fifth chapter of this
text. With it, you will be protected from harm, crime, law
enforcement, and any form of spiritual malediction that
may become directed your way. Even the spirits
themselves will respect this Veve, and will not harm you as
you tread uninvited into their world.