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

Comments

Weather radio and MOE Healing Hands

[slclaire]

I've recently begun working with the MOE Healing Hands technique. A few days after I began, the display on my weather radio went dark at some time overnight, although the radio itself still worked. I left the radio alone the next day until it was time for bed. The display was still dark. Then I performed the MOE Healing Hands on the radio, with the intention to heal the display. Sometime overnight, the display started working again, and it continues to work!

This brings up a discussion of life in what we usually consider machinery. I've always had friendly feelings toward the weather radio. Here in the Midwest, knowing when to take shelter from an approaching tornado is a big deal. The December 2021 tornado that hit the Amazon warehouse in Illinois about 10 miles away was one it had warned us about, and we were in shelter and the radio with us when it hit. Treating the machinery in our lives in a respectful manner honors their lives, so it may not be such a stretch to use healing techniques on them, especially if, like the weather radio, there are no user-serviceable parts aside from changing the battery.

On another note, I'm enjoying the practices in the Way of the Golden Section. A zoo of constructed polyhedra has an honored place on a coffee table. Thanks for the GSF; I'm looking forward to working my way through all the books!

Re: Weather radio and MOE Healing Hands

[ecosophia]

I'm not at all surprised. If the basic teachings of occultism are correct, all material objects have some form of life and consciousness, and so can respond to healing and blessing. Glad to hear you're enjoying the GSF material -- once I finish the current round of Magic Monday responses, I'll be getting back to work on the next book in the series.