ecosophia | 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? I've decided to trace, as far as I can, my own occult lineage in photos. We're still tracing Juliet Ashley's end of the lineage. Two weeks ago I posted an image of her fourth teacher, Arthur Edward Waite, the Golden Dawn alumnus who passed onto her the rituals that became the foundation for the Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose. Waite, in turn, got his knowledge from the founders of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Last week I posted an image of one of these, the redoubtable William Wynn Westcott; this is Westcott's partner and rival in the project, Samuel Liddell Mathers. Another Freemason with a passion for the occult, and like Westcott a genuine scholar and mage, Mathers didn't have the organizational skills to keep the order together once Westcott stepped down from the leadership, and the Golden Dawn promptly blew itself to pieces in the squabbles that followed. Mathers remained in charge of one of the fragments thereafter, and he and his branch of the order will appear again once I get into some of the other ends of my lineage.

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Greetings, JMG! I’ve got two questions that have been on my mind for a while:

First, are there magical interpretations for seizures? Wondering if there is a higher level binding or separation aspect to it.

Second, how common are fae in the modern world? I’ve read (and greatly enjoyed!) Monsters. There’s been a few individuals I’ve met in my life that just seamed “off” in a very unexplainable way. Maybe 4 in 40 years. Interested in if people are still reporting encounters in recent years.

1) Not that I know of.

2) Yes, very much so. Most reports in today's America misinterpret them as "aliens," but the fae have always enjoyed passing themselves off as whatever popular culture wants them to be.

Wow... not OP, but extremely interested in this reply concerning the fae. Are there any tell-tale signs that could be suggestive of the fae in a person? ShadowRider

Fae aren't humans and they aren't in human bodies. They're beings with subtler bodies than ours, and they can mess with our senses very, very easily, thus the shapeshifting traditions that surround them. If you've got a chance, you might check out my book Monsters and/or Jacques Vallee's Passport to Magonia, which should help clarify things a bit.

(Not OP)

If you're interested, you may also want to check out the "Missing 411" material from David Paulides. He's investigated the thousands of people who've mysteriously disappeared in US national parks. Many of the cases bear a disturbing similarity to both alien abduction accounts and older Fae folklore.

It's on the get-to list.

Yesterday, I went to a prot. Church service on Genesis 6 and the marrying of the “sons of god”to the “daughters of man” creating giant hybrids. Unsaid is the fact that t “sons of god” are still here we just call them “Aliens”. In today’s UFO folklore, there is a secret hybridization program going on, aliens are creating a human/alien hybrid for some reason.

In Islamic folklore, the Djinn are said to be entities of air and fire, as a parallel creation to humans. They bear a significant similarity to Fae.

That's the old "changeling" tradition updated for a new era. One thing to keep in mind when dealing with these entities: they very, very rarely tell us the truth about anything. (And of course with UFOs, you've got the US military lying itself blue in the face to cover up their aerospace technology testing, so you've got two utterly unreliable sources feeding into the mess!)

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