isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"Taylor devoted his whole useful life to the search after such old manuscripts as would enable him to have his own speculations concerning several obscure rites in the Mysteries corroborated by writers who had been initiated themselves. It is with full confidence in the assertions of various classical writers that we say that ridiculous, perhaps [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"Bearing in mind that the Christian fathers have always claimed for themselves and their saints the name of "friends of God", and knowing that they borrowed this expression, with many others, from the technology of the Pagan temples, it is but natural to expect them to show an evil temper whenever alluding to these rites. [...]