Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. Any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. (Any question received after then will not get an answer, and will likely just be deleted.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here.

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With that said, have at it!

***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

***Ahem. People have continued to try to post questions, despite the post being closed. I have deleted these. Follow-up comments to existing questions are fine, but other than that, please save it until the next Magic Monday.***

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I wasn't the one who asked about the Ogdoadic tradition last week, but I did bring up the subject in a previous Magic Monday. I was quite enamored with Denning and Phillips' work in my younger days, and made some desultory attempts to have a go at it; but I never made the effort to actually learn the system thoroughly. Nevertheless, I adopted this and that practice that lo these many years later are a normal part of my everyday life. I found some of the elementary work in The Magical Philosophy valuable, plus some of the practical exercises from their book on psychic defense (supplementing Dion Fortune's classic work on the subject), and things like the Tabor Formulation (an adaptation of the Orthodox hesychast "prayer of the heart") have long been blended into my exoteric religious practices. A few years ago I got interested in giving the system another serious try, though not being a people-person, I have no interest in joining a formal group. There seems to be darn little available online, and not a small amount of criticism about how the whole thing was a money-making scheme cooked up by Carl Weschcke back in the 1980s, with Denning and Phillips as either willing participants or clueless pawns. This is obviously false to anyone who has actually read the books, but it did motivate me to ask JMG about it. I was happy to see that he regards it as a legitimate school of occultism, so I'm continuing to follow my interest to see where it leads.

I think I may have already visited the Eightfold site, but I will check it out and see for sure. So thank you for this little reminder.

--Taupe Orthogonal Raccoon