Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's getting on 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. Sylvester Gould, last week's honoree, was an active member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, one of the more interesting occult orders of the late 19th century. (After many reorganizations, it's still around as the Church of Light aka Brotherhood of Light.) The H.B. of L., as most people called it back in the day, was founded by two British occultists, T.H. Burgoyne and Peter Davidson. The photo is of Burgoyne. It's also the photo of another gentleman, one Captain Norman Astley, who took over the reorganized H.B. of L. in America from Burgoyne, married another H.B. of L. adept -- the remarkable and talented Genevieve Stebbins -- and helped Benjamin Williams aka Elbert Benjamine aka C.C. Zain re-reorganize the H.B. of L. into the Brotherhood of Light aka Church of Light. Yes, Burgoyne and Astley were the same person. It's a complicated story. But Burgoyne and Peter Davidson, whom we'll be talking about next week, were among Sylvester Gould's teachers -- and behind them stands another and a considerably stranger figure.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Last week, I mentioned my uncomfortable theory that part of what drove the vaccine madness was accidental magic on the part of large parts of the middle classes to make sure they died before they lost their perks and privileges. Well, something very uncomfortable happened last night: my mother, always a good example of where the middle classes will be going next, said something I find very troubling when my sister said she was still not vaccinated against Covid-19 and brought out the evidence of harm to try to convince my mother to get off her case about it:

"Even if the Covid-19 vaccine kills me, it was a good deal, and given the chance, I'd do it again even knowing that it would cost my life."

This suggests two things to me: first, things are about to get really, really weird, since my mother is quite reliably about three months to a year ahead of where the majority of the middle classes will go; and second that if the vaccine does kill a lot of people, it won't be entirely unwelcome by all of them, and may even at some level have been the point for some of them....

[ecosophia]

That's one of the most horrifying things I've heard in years. That said, thank you for telling me; it's good to know. I think your theory has just passed its first test.

Brrrrrr.....

[(Anonymous)]

I really, seriously, truly do not to be right here....

[(Anonymous)]

Something else profoundly troubling just hit me: I refused the vaccine on the basis of the fact my intuition was screaming it would be fatal. A lot of the weirdness of 2021 makes much more sense if a lot of people took the vaccines because</I their intuition was saying the same thing; everything ranging from the frantic nonsensical defences, to the rush to get it, to the adamant insistence everyone needed to take it without exception....

[(Anonymous)]

Someone else posted on Kimberly Steele's journal wondering what to make of something else surprisingly similar: https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/80368.html?replyto=2803440

[ecosophia]

Oh dear gods. When I suggested a few years ago that the Boomers might start hosting suicide parties, so they could check out before their world finished crashing around them, I didn't think they'd do it on so absurdly overblown a scale...

[(Anonymous)]

Why not? It seems to me that "Doing things on an overblown scale" has kind of been the MO for the Boomers since they first started having an impact on society....

[(Anonymous)]

Why not? It seems to me that "Doing things on an overblown scale" has kind of been the MO for the Boomers since they first started having an impact on society....

That's true. This makes emotional sense. They're used to being this force and when you're over and self absorbed, you don't care who's collateral damage. I was there, too.

Erika

[(Anonymous)]

Wow just wow on that phrasing she used. Rasmussen polls asked people if they knew someone they think was killed by taking the vivid vaccine and 1/3 of democrats said yes and 1/4 republicians - so basically half the country. Talk about the elephant in the room that no one will talk about! But they told the pollster.

[(Anonymous)]

Even if the Covid-19 vaccine kills me, it was a good deal, and given the chance, I'd do it again even knowing that it would cost my life."

How and why could anyone thing this? This makes national socialism seem the height of goodness and rationality.
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