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Magic Monday
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 thirtieth card in The Sacred Geometry Oracle. Card 31, the Sphere, when upright tells you that the possibilities before you are much bigger than you realize; when reversed, it tells you that you're completely missing what's going on. 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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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***
A few Qs
Thanks once again for hosting and generously answering all of these questions.
1. Is it possible for a person to progress along their path, eventually passing beyond human incarnation, without deliberately pursuing spiritual practice? In other words, is every atheist stalling at best, and going the wrong direction at worst, or can atheism be a necessary spiritual step somehow?
2. I recently read you mention that if someone monetizes some teaching they got for free on your blog, you should be paid for that. I’ve taught monetized classes where I shared things you’ve posted for free on your blogs. I figured that taking bits and pieces of things I’ve learned, whether for free or that I paid for, and sharing a mix of that combined with my own experience (monetized), is basically what every teacher and book I’ve learned from has also done, and thus, is normal and ok to do. But if the occult has taught me anything, it’s to be open to being wrong and owning up to it. What are your thoughts?
3. I noticed you mentioned on your other blog that John Gilbert had dealings with - and steered his students away from - 22 Teachings. Do you know what happened between he and them to leave such a bad taste or why he would ultimately decide to dissuade students from them?
4. I know you respect Duquette but what do you make of his belief that Goetic spirits are only portions of the human brain (parroting Crowley) rather than objective, independent beings? My experience with working magic is that I started from the former and experience led me to the latter, which is also your position, if I’m not mistaken. Is it the case that he’s simply wrong about this aspect of magic but he has other useful teachings to offer? To me, getting something that wrong makes me question everything coming from the source.
Thanks again,
Mauve Atomic Lorax
Re: A few Qs
2) Nah, what I say is that if you publish something based on my work you should put something in my tip jar as fair payment. Teaching classes is another matter. I'd appreciate it if you give me credit for the material in the classes, but that's all I ask.
3) He never mentioned the details to me, but whatever it was, it left a very negative impression on him.
4) I respect Lon as a person and as a practical occultist -- I've done Golden Dawn initiations with him, and the man's good -- but some of his ideas strike me as cockeyed at best. This is one of them. I recommend reading his works and then making up your own mind -- but of course I recommend that you do that with my works, too, and with everyone else's.
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