ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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Dear JMG:

First off, thank you for Magic Mondays and for all you give us!

To my question, a couple of months ago, I tried doing Essene Healing Hands (as described in your Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose columns) for my father and my friend. I had of course asked both of them and they both gave their consent.

When doing the Essene Healing Hands, I would 'empower' and 'activate' them first thing in the morning, while I was still lying on my back in bed. The orientation of my hands relative to my body was still as described in the lectures, but the whole assemblage (me and my hands) was 90 degrees from the vertical.

I say "tried doing" because I wrestled with the imagery a little bit. For example, the red triangle kept wanting to be black, and I would have to bear down on my concentration to make sure it was red.

After a few weeks, I noticed that my friend's nose looked a bit discolored. I thought, 'maybe I am hurting him rather than helping', so I stopped, and have not done the Essene Healing Hands empowerment or activation since then. This was about a month and a half ago.

Now I notice, especially when I am lying on my back in bed or on the floor doing my stretches, that my hands, especially the right one, are energetically "noisy". I don't like to put them near my face or head, or even with my arms stretched out to the side even with my head. There seems to be some kind of energy flowing out of my hand(s), and when it goes into/through my head it feels "undesirable". Hands placed lower down, such as my left hand resting on my belly just above my pubic bone and the right hand resting around my solar plexus as I lie on my back, seems to be OK and in fact feels desirable.

I don't feel this energy flow from my hands when I am sitting or standing upright, and I hold my hands near my head.

Is this anything bad? Do I need to do something about it?

Thanks a lot,

Cicada Grove

Did you ask your friend how he was doing, or do some divination to figure out what's going on?

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