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-ninth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 29, The Dodecahedron, when upright tells you that spiritual forces are involved in the situation; when reversed, it warns you that you will have to embrace personal change in order to deal with what's happening.. 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

Re: Generating a Spiritual Body

[robertmathiesen]

That's absolutely fascinating about the long barrows vs. the mound barrows! It aligns neatly with the little I know about archeological work on the barrows, chiefly from reading Aubrey Burl's books. (Burl does mention one fairly clear case of burial alive to protect a tribe, but it was found in Ireland and in connetion with a hill fort.)

Can you point me toward any other published work, whether presented as factual or written under the cover of fiction, that develops this idea more fully? Or it it mostly your own inferences from archeological findings?

Re: Generating a Spiritual Body

[ecosophia]

RJ Stewart has an essay titled "The Tomb of a King," which is iirc included as an appendix in The UnderWorld Initiation, which gives some details of the older tradition; Carmen Blacker's The Catalpa Bow has a chapter on the sokushinbutsu of early modern Japan, who followed the same tradition. I also used Burl extensively as a resource, and of course the extensive scholarly literature on Egyptian funerary traditions and on vampirism covers much of the later material. That said, yes, there's a lot of personal inference involved.

Re: Generating a Spiritual Body

[robertmathiesen]

Thanks for the pointer to Stewart's essay. When I read it today, I realized that I'd read it before, but forgotten. I think pretty highly of Stewart's work in general. He very good at teasing out the esoteric lore hidden in the Scottish and English traditional ballads.

Re: Generating a Spiritual Body

[ecosophia]

No question, Stewart's good. His writings have pointed me toward any number of things I'd otherwise have missed completely.