Hence, when we are assured by trustworthy and respectable persons of high social standing, and unimpeachable character, that there are many well‐ organised societies among the Roman Catholic priests which, under the pretext and cover of Modern Spiritualism and mediumship, hold _séances_ for the purposes of conversion by suggestion, directly and at a distance—we answer: We know it. And when, moreover, we are told that whenever those priest‐hypnotists are desirous of acquiring an influence over some individual or individuals, selected by them for conversion, they retire to an underground place, allotted and consecrated by them for such purposes (_viz._, ceremonial Magic); and there, forming a circle, throw their combined will‐power in the direction of that individual, and thus by repeating the process, gain a complete control over their victim—we again answer: Very likely. In fact we know the practice to be so, whether this kind of ceremonial Magic and _envoûtement_ is practised at Stonehenge or elsewhere. We know it, we say, through personal experience; and also because several of the writer’s best and most loved friends have been unconsciously drawn into the Romish Church and under her “benign” protection by such means. And, therefore, we can only laugh in pity at the ignorance and stubbornness of those deluded men of Science and cultured experimentalists who, while believing in the power of Dr. Charcot and his disciples to “envoûte” their subjects, find nothing better than a scornful smile whenever Black Magic and its potency are mentioned before them. Éliphas Lévi, the Abbé‐Kabalist, died before Science and the Faculté de Médecine of France had accepted hypnotism and influence _par suggestion_ among its scientific experiments, but this is what he said twenty‐five years ago, in his _Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie_, on “Les Envoûtements et les Sorts”: