Magic Monday

It's a few minutes before midnight, so we can launch into 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 or comment 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 1.1 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? I field a lot of questions about my books these days, so I've decided to do little capsule summaries of them here, one per week. The book above on the left is the current edition of my eleventh published book, my translation of The Academy of the Sword by Gerard Thibault d'Anvers. There's a long and rather tangled story behind this book; I found out about it while doing research into Renaissance sacred geometry, went looking for an English translation, discovered that there wasn't one (and nobody had paid the least attention to Thibault in three hundred years), and decided to translate it myself, using a microfilm copy from the British Library as raw material. It took most of a decade, and much of it was done sitting on Seattle public transit -- I still have the notebook, and I'm amazed at times that I was able to read my own writing.  I published the first eight chapters as a self-published spiral bound photocopy edition, and that got such an enthusiastic response that I went on to finish it; the first publisher, Chivalry Bookshelf, brought it out and went broke a few years later, and it took some years before Aeon Books brought out the current edition.

What is it? A complete training course in rapier fencing based on Renaissance sacred geometry. It's the longest and most elaborate treatise on swordsmanship ever written, and one of the strangest, but I have it on good authority that the techniques work exceptionally well in practice -- yes, there are people who still practice old-fashioned rapier fencing. (The image on the right shows two of them working through the opening steps of one of Thibault's techniques.) If you're interested in this oddest of my books, you can get a copy here if you're in the US and here if you're elsewhere.

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I've had several people ask about tipping me for answers here, and though I certainly don't require that I won't turn it down. You can use either of the links above to access my online tip jar; Buymeacoffee is good for small tips, Ko-Fi is better for larger ones. (I used to use PayPal but they developed an allergy to free speech, so I've developed an allergy to them.) If you're interested in political and economic astrology, or simply prefer to use a subscription service to support your favorite authors, you can find my Patreon page here and my SubscribeStar page here. 

 

I've also had quite a few people over the years ask me where they should buy my books, and here's the answer. Bookshop.org is an alternative online bookstore that supports local bookstores and authors, which a certain gargantuan corporation doesn't, and I have a shop there, which you can check out here. Please consider patronizing it if you'd like to purchase any of my books online.

And don't forget to look up your Pangalactic New Age Soul Signature at CosmicOom.com.

With that said, have at it!

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