isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

"We cannot regard with too much astonishment the pretensions of the Catholic Church in seeking to convert Hindus and Buddhists to Christianity. While the "heathen" keeps to the faith of his fathers, he has at least the one redeeming quality - that of not having apostatized for the mere pleasure of exchanging one set of [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter ii (sorcery)

""Observe well", exclaims des Mousseaux, "that there are demons which sometimes will speak the truth." "The exorcist", he adds, quoting the Ritual, "must command the demon to tell him whether he is detained in the body of the demoniac through some magic art, or by signs, or any objects which usually serve for this evil [...]