The tales of life on other planes brought back by native spirits evoked by Oriental magicians in no way tally with Western accounts, but as phallic worship is integral with many Eastern beliefs, it is no matter for wonder that some Eastern spirit evidence concerning the next plane would make the most hardened Western libertine blush. They also affirm with considerable emphasis that on the next plane nationalities and colour lines are unknown, a point which is reinforced by the number of ex-coloured spirits which frequent Western séances. It is indeed difficult to know what to believe. The Yogis can produce phenomena of materialization, prolonged trance states, and can sometimes act as powerful hypnotists and seize the Durga, literally citadel, of another’s body. On the other hand, the net yield of all purely Indian occultism is very disappointing. This may be due to the selflessness inculcated in their religious teaching, which subdues love and hatred as equal enemies of spiritual progress. If their magic were efficient, much more would be done with it, and the consensus of general opinion is that despite its extraordinary interest to the mystic and the scholar it has little to offer of interest to the Spiritualist. Certain of lesser known Yogas which do produce astonishing phenomena belong definitely to the domain of black magic and only parallel certain well-known outbreaks of phallic sorcery that occurred in Europe in the Middle Ages. The cult of evocation is held by some students to have spread from India to the Arab races, but more recent investigations suggest that the astonishing performances achieved by certain nominally Moslem sects in the fastnesses of Tripoli and Morocco are due to the survivals from the aborigines of those lands rather than to Oriental ideas. The Berbers are a distinct primitive race akin to the Basques, and probably identical with the ancient Britons who built Stonehenge. To-day they are fanatical Moslemin, but the old practices linger as rituals of specific religious cults, such as the Sufi Senoussi and the Aissouri of Morocco. They are racially strange folk and the Moslem veneer is only a lay religion imposed on a mass of pagan folklore closely connected with serpent worship and astronomical observances. Their festivals of the solstices have an outward-seeming Muslim connection, but the inner hidden occult religion is a far older thing. The Berbers are not of Arab stock; they are Semitic and they are probably pre-Aryan. Some writers[53] trace their connection to the original Firbolgs of Iceland, and the ethnology of this mysterious race is still a matter of speculation and doubt.