Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's a little after 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. Before Sandra Tabatha Cicero, last week's honoree, became head of the Societas Rosicruciana in America, it had two heads, Lucia Grosch and Maria Babwahsingh, who functioned mostly in a caretaking capacity. Before them, the head of the order was Mother Serena, shown in the picture. Her real name was Gladys Plummer, and she was the wife of SRIA cofounder George Winslow Plummer; I have not been able to trace down many biographical details of hers, but she was much younger than her first husband. After his death, she and Stanislaus Witowski headed the order; they married, and she outlived him as well. Her "Lettergrams" and some of her essays are still available from the SRIA bookshop; they show her to be a perceptive mystic and occultist. 

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

Comments

Is Santa real?

[(Anonymous)]

I realized last year that Santa or Father Christmas as a mythical cultural force, predates Christ, easily merged into Western Christian culture, and now several Asian cultures. He survived and thrived in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, godless post war consumerism, "war on Christmas," and the current Woke Jacobin revolution alike. For thousands of years now, he has been inspiring parents to do his bidding at great personal cost, and children to give him their unswerving devotion.

Given that Magic is the art and science of changing consciousness in accordance with will, it seems that some powerful outside force has been doing just that, for the past several thousand years, with no threat from some of the most consciousness totalitarian, anti tradition, anti previous religion, and anti cultural norm forces that our species has encountered. Also I have noticed that his magic seems to bring not just joy, and peace (such as the 1914 Christmas eve armistice) as is advertised, but also a great, and often realized potential for grief, disappointment, and misery for those who don't yolo his bidding? So my questions are: 1. What is going on here, is this guy real? and 2. Do you have any sense if he is force is good or ill?

Re: Is Santa real?

[lukedodson]

Just off the top of my head, it seems like Santa has characterises of both Jupiter and Saturn. He's jovial, like Jupiter, but concerned with giving you exactly what you deserve ("he knows when you've been bad or good"), like Saturn. Then there are the origins of Christmas partially lying in Saturnalia, of course.

Re: Is Santa real?

[ecosophia]

Santa is Saturn. He's the Lord of the Golden Age, located at the far end of the world, and rules the season of midwinter, when the Romans celebrated Saturnalia. Santa's also a figure of strict justice, as Saturn is -- he's the one who gives a lump of coal to bad little children and rewards their better-behaved equivalents with material goodies. So yes, he's real, and none of the planetary powers can be called "good" or "evil" -- they simply are.