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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With that said, have at it! 

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

I'm wondering if you (or your readers) might have any insight into the occult origins or symbolism behind a particular icon in upstate NY. The icon is a red terra cotta face on the north-facing gable of the chapel on the former campus of the Roycroft community (photo available here: https://roycroftcampuscorporation.typepad.com/roycroftcampuscorporation/2014/03/a-chapel-detail.html).

It's come to be called "the north wind" and rumored to have been designed by the illustrator WW Denslow, who spent time in the Roycroft community. The Roycroft itself was founded by Elbert Hubbard, a kind of a dilettante who made a lot of money in the soap business and launched an arts and crafts community outside of Buffalo inspired by William Morris. Hubbard himself absolutely had some occult interests and he founded Roycroft in the wake of the second great awakening that burned through Western NY.

I swear I've seen a similar image in some of my readings on the occult online but have lost track of where. I'm wondering if the image itself or its placement and context ring any chimes for you?

[ecosophia]

The nearest image I can think of is this:



It's a bas-relief from the Roman baths at Bath, England. Its meaning is unknown.