Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on for midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note:  Any question received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) 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. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says. 

The image?  That's the twenty-seventh card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 27, The Golden Proportion, when upright indicates that you can expect perfect success; when reversed, it tells you that your own actions have brought about your failure. The sun in the upper left corner of the image tells you that this card belongs to the final third of the oracle, which corresponds to Nwyfre, the principle of spirit and meaning.  We've completed our passage through the first two of the basic root functions of sacred geometry -- √3, the principle of the vesica piscis and the equilateral triangle, and √2, the principle of the square and its diagonal -- and now we're working with the √5, the seed from which the Golden Section unfolds and resolves all back into unity.

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With that said, have at it! 

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

Comments

A couple of questions ...

[australiandreamer]

1) I received this in my email the other day ... "Greetings From The Illuminati Order. Bringing the poor, the needy and the talented to the limelight of fame, riches, power and security.
Do you want to change your life completely for good and wish to be rich and successful in your business? Are you talented and wish to be famous? Do you want to be protected spiritually and physically? All these and more you will get in a twinkle of an eye when you join the great Illuminati Order. Do you agree to be a member of the Illuminati New World order? Reply YES! via email:"
Even before I started reading here that would have been sad but so totally not how it works! (I didn't send an email)

That is not a question just wanted to share...


2) If you spend three months working into a path and then you do nothing for three months ... when you return do you pick up where you left off, do the whole thing over in the same time frame, do the first one and see how it feels and if all good do the second etc or ...?


3) I recently came across the book 'Not in His Image (15th Anniversary Edition)' by John Lamb Lash ... is it a worthy read or a don't bother or ... ?

Re: A couple of questions ...

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, I've seen those. Funny.

2) You go through an abbreviated version of the work you did over the first three months, starting from scratch but advancing as quickly as seems appropriate through the different stages.

3) I haven't read it. Anyone else?

Re: A couple of questions ...

[(Anonymous)]

I've read it and in all honesty I can't really recommend it. I purchased it when I was reading about gnosticism in general. The book starts out sounding like a fairly scholarly work but the author kept dropping dark hints as he went along as to why gnosticism was crushed and traditional Christianity triumphed until the last third of the book when he brings aliens into the mix. Here's a sample sentence,

"Who is willing to consider that salvationist religion is an ideological virus insinuated into the human psyche by an alien species?"

If you're into that kind of thing you can read the book but I have little tolerance for space alien conspiracies and was disappointed. I wanted to read actual scholarly works about gnosticism, not someone's fever dream.

JLfromNH/Periwinkle Obstreperous Boar

Re: A couple of questions ...

[ecosophia]

Space alien conspiracies?

Oog. Yeah, I'll pass too. Thanks for alerting me.

Re: A couple of questions ...

[australiandreamer]

Thank you from me too - not my cup of tea either.

Did you end up finding anything you would recommend?

Re: A couple of questions ...

[brenainn]

If you want something that is a scholarly introduction, I can recommend "Introduction to Gnosticism: Ancient Voices, Christian Worlds" by Nicola Denzey Lewis. It also has some material on pagan and polytheistic Gnosticism, since some of those texts were recovered at Nag Hammadi, too. I found it to be a very good scholarly introduction to Gnosticism. Not as good, but still recommendable, is "The Gnostic Bible: Gnostic Texts of Mystical Wisdom from the Ancient and Medieval Worlds," Willis Barnstone and Marvin Meyer as editors. A nice collection of Gnostic works, with good introductions for each text and school of Gnostic thought.

Re: A couple of questions ...

[(Anonymous)]

Willis Barnstone's The Gnostic Bible as well as The Other Bible, I liked as they both include actual gnostic texts. It's amazing how much has survived given how diligently the early Church tried to stamp all this out.

(hope this comment isn't too late.)

JLfromNH/Periwinkle Obstreperous Boar

Re: A couple of questions ...

[(Anonymous)]

Fun little tidbit. (Yes, I still have the book. I can't bring myself to toss it because I'm afraid it may mutate into something even worse...) In the glossary he has at the end of the book, he defines Archons as the following:

"(From Greek for 'first', 'from the beginning') Inorganic species produced by the impact of Sophia upon elementary matter before Sophia turned into the earth. Cyborgs inhabiting the solar system at large who excel in the psychotechnology of virtual reality, intrude upon humanity by psychic stealth, and propagate the ideological virus of redemptive religion..."

There's more but I'll spare you.

JLfromNH/Periwinkle Obstreperous Boar

Re: A couple of questions ...

[ecosophia]

I'm quite sure I read that same take on things in a cheap science fiction novel back in the 1970s, when I was in my teens. Even then I thought it was dumb.