Also shows how to concentrate one's energies to make constant progress. One of the Church's all-time greatest books on the spiritual life and a favorite book of St. Francis de Sales. There are few cities with so many good as New Orleans and also few cities where there is such a stark coexistence with the bad. New Orleans, you are in peril. You are a fine people but you have let fester an evil that is unmatched outside of Hollywood and Berkeley and Times Square.
Voodoo priests are openly at work.
There are occult temples. There is the proud tomb of voodoo queen Marie Leveau. Before you start thinking that voodoo is something of the past, the reader should be aware that the religion is as alive today as it was in the days of Marie Laveau. When you invoke dark spirits, you get a storm. Then there's the Mardi Gras.