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 Gladys Plummer, last week's honoree, became head of the Societas Rosicruciana in America, her husband George Winslow Plummer was the head of the order. For all practical purposes, he was also the founder; his teacher Sylvester Gould, whom we'll discuss next week, started the ball rolling, but Gould died suddenly in 1909 and Plummer picked up the pieces and went from there. Plummer was an enthusiastic Freemason and had received Rosicrucian initiation from Gould, but not a complete system of teaching or initiation; he created those by close but not uncritical study of the Rosicrucian and occult literature of his time, and tried to find common ground between occult teaching and science. He was also a devout if eccentric Christian, and ended up being consecrated as a bishop in an independent church with connections to the Orthodox churches. Though I don't share his religion, he's one of the role models from whom I've tried to learn.

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

Comments

Tissue salts and the placebo effect

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

I remember you mentioning somewhere that homeopathic medicines, such as tissue salts, work on the etheric body rather than the physical one. Am I remembering correctly?

If this is the case, how does the placebo effect work with homeopathic medicines? The same way as allopathic medicines - the mind tricking the body into experiencing something that has no traceability to the medicines taken?

Can you perhaps provide links or titles of publications that might help me understand the different bodies and how they interact with medicines?

Thanks
Tangerine Ludicrous Aardvark

Re: Tissue salts and the placebo effect

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, I discussed that here.

2) As far as I know, yes.

3) I don't know of any specific literature on that subject. My take on tissue salts is based on my personal experience with them over the last thirty-odd years, and also on the writings of John Kent Tyler and other old-school homeopaths -- they don't talk about the subtle bodies, but the language they use can readily be translated into those terms. You might try A.E. Powell's The Etheric Double and The Astral Body for good general overviews of the subtle bodies.