ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's just past 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'm still tracing my lineage in photographs. At some point after the death of Bishop Shaw, a question arose about the legitimacy of the apostolic succession of the Universal Gnostic Church. John Gilbert arranged to settle the matter in the traditional way by receiving sub conditione consecration from Archbishop Herman Adrian Spruit of the Church of Antioch; that's Archbishop Spruit in the photo. Sub conditione? That's the technical term for a second consecration given to a bishop in case the original one didn't have valid lineage, and Spruit was the man to give it.

He was born in 1911 and started out his religious career as a Methodist minister, but he became convinced that a more sacramental and less dogmatic approach to Christianity was needed, and so he joined the Independent Sacramental Movement and was consecrated as an independent bishop. At that time there were sixteen different lineages of apostolic succession outside the control of the established churches, and squabbles between independent bishops about the validity of the different lines were common. Spruit ended that in an exceptionally graceful way. He arranged to be consecrated sub conditione in all of the lineages, and then conferred the same consecration on any bishop or qualified candidate for the episcopacy who requested it. These days practically every bishop in the Independent Sacramental Movement has all sixteen lines -- yes, including me -- and the squabbles are over. Bishop Spruit's Catholic Apostolic Church of Antioch remains an active independent church, and so do many of the other independent churches who received his blessing.

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A wonderful Monday to everybody, and many thanks to you, JMG, for hosting Magic Monday again! :-)

Two questions today, if I may:

1. Judson Exercise

The numbers of turns in the Judson exercise, have they simply been determined by experience ("this works best")? Or is it a somewhat random matter how often one turns, potentially as long as certain rules are adhered to (e.g. as long as the clockwise turns outnumber the anti-clockwise)? Or is there some occult symbolism behind the specific numbers?

2. Planetary correspondence for peace

While several planets cover aspects which are important for peace (Venus, the Sun, Jupiter coming to mind), I have yet to see a clear planetary correspondence for peace spelled out somewhere, just like Mars usually is for war.

On the other hand, one would think that this correspondence is featured front and center, since having somebody to petition for peace would be at least as pressing as having somebody to petition for war. ;-)

Have people been turning to Mars for peace as well as for war? Is peace simply too complex an issue to be ruled by any one planet? Or what am I missing?

Milkyway

2. Peace is a balance of forces and so it makes sense why it wouldn't fall exclusively under any planet.

1) I have no idea. The only information I've been able to find about the Judson exercise is in two short books by Abby Judson herself --

https://archive.org/details/developmentofmed00juds
https://archive.org/details/BridgeBetweenTwoWorlds

-- and they don't say.

2) I've always used Venus to represent peace in magical workings, with good effect. Of course your mileage may vary.

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Judson Exercise: numbers; planetary correspondence for peace

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