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

A not so happy new year

[iprescott]

Hi JMG,

I hope that you and Sara had a Happy New year and that this New Year will be prosperous for you both.

On New Years Eve, someone busted out my Wife's car window. We were the only car hit in our neighborhood. My neighbor has cameras on the front of his house and it shows a person walking down the cross street on to our street and straight to my wife's car. After I turned off the alarm, he ran like a coward. The police were called and the officer did not seem very interested in the situation. This would end up in a summary offense (slap on the wrist with a fine) for the perp, if they find out who it was. You could not see a face in the camera footage. The officer said that it looks targeted (we have no enemies) and my neighbor said it looks like the perp was on a mission. My neighbor sent me the footage and I agree with both.
There is magic I know how to do. I have used it for positive purposes with very good results. I am a Seeker in the FHR and am current on the MOE material as well. If I did a working to make sure the perp gets everything they deserve and nothing more, what could the karmic repercussions be? I know it would be interfering with someones Will, but the perp interfered with mine and my Wife's will by destroying our property and costing us resources to get it fixed.

I ask, what advice do you have in this matter?

Best Regards,

Ian a.k.a Cobalt Necrotic Skull.

Re: A not so happy new year

[ecosophia]

You can certainly do that. The blowback is simply that in some other part of your life, you will get exactly what you deserve and nothing more. If you're good with that, by all means invoke justice. If you're aware of some part of your life where you've been unjust and unfair, by the way, and you can act preemptively and make things right, that will add force to the working -- if you affirm strict justice in your own life you have more power to invoke it more generally.