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 picture?  I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me. The last two weeks were devoted to the leaders of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (H.B. of L.), one of the sources from which the Rosicrucian teacher Sylvester Gould got his training and background. Behind T.H. Burgoyne and Peter Davidson, who ran the order, was the remarkable figure of Max Théon, who's this week's honoree. His real name was Louis Maximilian Bimstein, and yes, if I had that name I'd probably call myself something like Max Théon too. Born in what is now Poland and was then part of the Russian Empire, he studied occultism from Polish Cabalists, then moved to London and helped get the H.B. of L. going. By the time that folded he and his English wife, née Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware, had already relocated to Paris, and moved from there to Algeria, where they spent the rest of their lives teaching an abstruse occult system, the Philosophie Cosmique. Mira Alfassa -- later The Mother, Sri Aurobindo's fellow-teacher -- was one of Théon's students in that phase of his career.

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With that said, have at it!

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