ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's getting on for midnight as I write this, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Let's start things out with a quote again:

"Discipline has long been interpreted as self-control, or as some would say, "the overcoming of the lower nature.' The difficultiy is that such words as 'conquest' and 'overcoming' suggest an entirely inconsistent aggressiveness of technique. The true metaphysician is not a wearied man wrestling with his lower nature; rather he is poised and relaxed, achieving through realization instead of conflict. Avoid the process of suffering your way into a spiritual state."

That's from Manly P. Hall's Self-Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization, arguably Hall's best book and one of the classics of the Golden Age of American occultism. (The image to the left, on the other hand, is one of Augustus Knapp's splendid illustrations for Hall's The Secret Teachings of All Ages.)

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***This Magic Monday is now closed -- see you next week!***

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Thank you, sorry for my previous answer, I was typing fast, I meant the hoodoo colored candles if that was not clear.

By the way, I just remembered something. I contacted dreamwidth a while ago about making entries searchable (so that your logged in readers can get a search bar). There are a couple of options in you Settings -> Privacy page. By default someone has to be on your "access list" to search your journal but you can open it to any dreamwidth user if you'd like by having Site-Wide search inclusion set to yes (that is the default option) and Searching your journal set to Allow any logged-in user to search my journal (not the default option)

Edited 2020-10-05 22:27 (UTC)

Hmm! Thanks for this. I've just made that change.

It worked! Thank you for enabling it, this is of great help for consulting previous Magic Mondays and such.

Edited 2020-10-06 00:11 (UTC)

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