Introduction to Voodoo in Haitiby Bob Corbett

H. P. Blavatsky
MADAME BLAVATSKY ON "THE HIMALAYAN BROTHERS"
SIR,-- "On the authority of an adept" (?) "they" (the Theosophists and Madame Blavatsky) "are all mediums under the influence of the lower spirits." Such is the sentence used by you in an editorial review of Mr. Sinnett`s Occult World (Spiritualist, June 17th).

'Ότι μὲν ὑμει̃σ, ὠ̃ ἄνδρες 'Αθηναι̃οι, πεπόνθατε ὑπὸ τω̃ν ἐμω̃ν κατηγόρων, οὐκ οἰ̃δα: ἐγὼ δ' οὐ̃ν καὶ αὐτὸς ὑπ' αὐτω̃ν ὀλίγου ἐμαυτου̃ ἐπελαθόμην, οὕτω πιθανω̃ς ἔλεγον. καίτοι ἀληθές γε ὡς ἔπος εἰπει̃ν οὐδὲν εἰρήκασιν. μάλιστα δὲ αὐτω̃ν ἓν ἐθαύμασα τω̃ν πολλω̃ν ὡ̃ν ἐψεύσαντο, του̃το ἐν ὡ̨̃ ἔλεγον ὡς χρη̃ν ὑμα̃ς εὐλαβει̃σθαι μὴ ὑπ' ἐμου̃ ἐξαπατηθη̃τε ὡς δεινου̃ ὄντος λέγειν. τὸ γὰρ μὴ αἰσχυνθη̃ναι ὅτι αὐτίκα ὑπ' ἐμου̃ ἐξελεγχθήσονται ἔργω̨, ἐπειδὰν μηδ' ὁπωστιου̃ν φαίνωμαι δεινὸς λέγειν, του̃τό μοι ἔδοξεν αὐτω̃ν ἀναισχυν - τότατον εἰ̃ναι, εἰ μὴ ἄρα δεινὸν καλου̃σιν οὑ̃τοι λέγειν τὸν τἀληθη̃ λέγοντα: εἰ μὲν γὰρ του̃το λέγουσιν, ὁμολογοίην ἂν ἔγωγε οὐ κατὰ τούτους εἰ̃ναι ῥήτωρ.

Seven Orishas from the Yoruba Pantheon
Eleggua / Obatala / Oloddumare / Oshun / Oya / Yemalla / Shango

H. P. BLAVATSKY
THE ELECTRIC AND MAGNETIC AFFINITIES BETWEEN MAN AND NATURE
Without going too deeply into certain vexed questions based upon what the orthodox men of science please to term the "hypothetical" conclusions of the Psychological School, whenever we meet with discoveries made by the former, coinciding perfectly with the teachings of the latter, we think ourselves entitled to make them known to the world of skeptics. For instance, this psychological, or spiritual, school holds that "every being and naturally-formed object is in its beginning, a spiritual or monadial entity" which, having its origin in the spiritual or monadial plane of existence, must necessarily have as many relations with the latter as it has with the material or sensuous plane in which it physically develops itself.

THROUGH THE MAGIC DOOR BY ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
I. I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, nor how lowly the room which it adorns. Close the door of that room behind you, shut off with it all the cares of the outer world, plunge back into the soothing company of the great dead, and then you are through the magic portal into that fair land whither worry and vexation can follow you no more.