Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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Comments

[tamanous2020]

Thanks for the reply JMG.

4) I hadn't even though about that haha. I had been operating as me always being the unmoving center between the directions. But of course, in the material world, we're always in relation to something or someone.

So that's very I interesting. Using that same concept, the Abrahamics stand in the west, associated with Gabriel, Mercury and Water when looking to the east. I cant pinpoint why that feels important but it gives more opportunities to meditate on it. Have there ever been SoP recommendations where you've advised someone to start looking northward or westward based on their pantheon?

5) Sounds like a good mentor! What other non-occult books did he recommended for that?

[(Anonymous)]

How does ritual support a change in consciousness? Rituals feel very odd to me because I grew up in a Southern Baptist church were ritual was deliberately minimized and faith was considered of primary importance. I think Baptist feel that ritual is an outward display that might hide lack of faith, or maybe they fear people will put faith in the ritual rather than God.

Re: Keeping My Head On Straight

[(Anonymous)]

Don’t know what JMG will recommend; but if you wish to perform a service deed, you could set up a blogspace to handhold a few of us unpublished folks and shepherd us as we attempt to reach the enviable position you yourself have achieved! Feels gloomy and sad and other unpleasant emotions for those of us who are floundering in the wilderness of options that self-publishing has grown into. Or if that is too much work, put in a good word of prayer for us to the Muses and Mercury or to Whomever guided you to our present level of success. Turn that dark energy around and shine your Light on us! (Pretty please.)

Re: Ghosts, Slime, and Schizophrenia

[goatgodschild]

1) Thank you.

2) The fault is mine, but thank you for the clarification. I was not aware that would constitute practicing medicine without a license, and will not ask such questions in the future.

[ecosophia]

Because modern industrial culture is obsessed with the false notion that human beings can do nothing by themselves, and have to turn to technology to do anything at all. The idea is always "don't develop your own abilities -- buy some piece of technology instead!"

Re: Current Mood: cheerful?

[brendhelm]

I've studied Japanese and so far all the ones that have come up have related to their translations.

[ecosophia]

You might consider meditating on it. ;-)

[ecosophia]

4) No, all the versions of the SoP I know of start facing east or south. One of the Druid traditions in which I've been initiated has you sitting in the east in the highest of the three grades of initiation, though.

5) That was the only non-occult book, and one of only two that he specifically required -- the other was the Kybalion. You were expected to read voluminously and report back on what you read, but you chose your own reading list.

[brendhelm]

What, I wonder, is the motivation in doing that? Is it because the myth of progress implies that couldn't have possibly lived a successful life in that time period on account of their orientation and therefore, since they were successful, they must have been straight?

Re: On Buying and Selling Souls

[ecosophia]

It depends on who or, rather, what purchases their souls from the original purchaser. If it's a malign spiritual entity, they're going to spend a long time between lives in a condition of pretty fair misery, running errands for their new boss.

[ecosophia]

That diagram isn't for the Greater Ritual of the Hexagram, it's for the Lesser. You only use that to banish, and only in the form shown. To invoke and banish each planet in the Greater Ritual, use the diagram on p. 93, going clockwise from the planet's point to invoke and counterclockwise to banish.

[ecosophia]

Not in any form ready for discussion. When I do, I'll post something.

[ecosophia]

You may be supposed to be there at this time, to take part in whatever transformation is going on. If you had some background in magic I'd point you to the land-healing ritual in my book The Druid Magic Handbook, but that requires mastery of everything else in that book. Do you have a good relationship with a deity? If so, prayer might help.

Re: Leo Kaiti

[ecosophia]

Hmm! No, I haven't heard of that at all. I don't have a reading knowledge of Italian so haven't really kept up on the occult authors in that language.

Re: IROP/BROP

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry for the confusion!

Invoking form of the Ritual of the pentagram, drawn from the top point of the pentagram to the bottom right point. Top to bottom left for the banishing version.

When I perform the IROP (Invoking/Summoning ritual of the pentagram) I feel especially when I am calling the elemental guardians I am bringing the cross of the elements within the circle of spirit. Which is the symbol associated with Muner in the Aurea Catena Homerii Tree of Life.

When I do banishing form of the ritual of the pentagram, I feel as though I am centering the space in Naf, because it feels as an empty circle to me. Possibly with the cross emerging from the circle, as in the Aurea Catena Homerii Naf symbol.

Does that clarify things? Anything else still confusing?

-WindMan

[d_mekel]

I see now. Thank you

Re: IROP/BROP

[ecosophia]

Interesting! Okay, that makes sense; thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

Dear John,

- What is the spiritual significance of Sirius in Hermetic and Masonic symbolism? And what is the role of the stars on us in contrast to the main seven luminaries of our solar system? (I've also come across this pic recently but couldn't trace its source, it caught my attention because it had a sigil of the Dog Star): https://ibb.co/sHWSDZh

- The LBRP is usually mentioned as a "banishing" ritual, but some refer to it as an invocation, what do you think?

Cheers,
Scarlet Hibernating Octopus

[ecosophia]

The practices you won't get to until you reach a more advanced grade. ;-)

(It's standard in the old occult training methods to start the student working on themselves, and to go onto practical magic only after a proper foundation has been laid. The Dolmen Arch follows that approach.)

Re: Meeting magical people

[ecosophia]

Good heavens, yes. The aura of a magical practitioner is much more highly energized than the aura of someone who doesn't practice.

Re: Medical geomancy again

[ecosophia]

Remember that the answer you get is an answer to the question you ask. You asked whether you could do or refrain from doing something to heal your daughter's symptoms. The answer you got is "yes." For the second question, you asked whether a doctor could do anything, and the answer you got is "no." So you now know two things you didn't previously know!

Re: yoga and chakras

[open_space]

Not JMG but I felt inclined to offer my comments.

As JMG has said a few times, the problem with East-West hybrids comes from the energetic anatomy of the subtle bodies and how these two traditions move energy in the body, as they do so differently. If you mess up with these energies badly enough people can get seriously injured, sicken and die. So, for example I wouldn't combine a routine that involves kundalini with magical traditions that use energy methods like the Middle Pillar. We don't know yet what causes this imbalance but it does happen.

That said, I wouldn't discard asana to be completely safe either, as they are meant to be done in particular sequences for specific purposes but I have found the general sequences that strengthen the whole body to be ok, but that is just my case. Pranayama is a different story, the only ones I've tried safely is deep breathing and the alternate nostril breathing that usually goes by the name nadi shuddhi as these also have balance and overall wellbeing as a goal. Things more complicated and specific than that I wouldn't mess with, with the exception of devotionals, while pursuing a western approach but I would say even that can create inconveniences if you are putting a lot of time into these things in some cases. Knowing what evolved from culture and tradition and what is more free-form from something that takes centuries to develop is quite tricky! And I am not convinced it is possible at all.

[ecosophia]

Irritability can be the result of an astral wound, but it can also have other sources.

Re: Etheric body question

[ecosophia]

How far out did the cilia extend?

Re: Latest Transcripts

[ecosophia]

Many thanks for these.