isis unveiled, vol2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"The fakirs, although they can never reach beyond the first degree of initiation, are, notwithstanding, the only agents between the living world and the "silent brothers", or those initiates who never cross the thresholds of their sacred dwellings. The Fukara-Yogis belong to the temples, and who knows but these cenobites of the sanctuary have far [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"As a rule, the missionaries, even after passing half a lifetime in the country of "devil-worship", as they call India, either disingenuously deny altogether what they cannot help knowing to be true, or ridiculously attribute phenomena to this power of the Devil, that outrival the "miracles" of the apostolic ages. And what do we see [...]