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Magic Monday
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. I'm going to jump back here a bit because I managed to trace down another significant figure from a lineage I've already discussed. Bishop Richard, Duc de Palatine was an Australian spiritual teacher and Gnostic bishop who played a crucial role in bringing the alternative sacramental movement to the United States, and strongly influenced both of the bishops who consecrated John Gilbert. Born Ronald Powell in 1916, he became a member of the Theosophical Society and then a bishop in the Liberal Catholic Church. After the Second World War he moved to Britain and founded the Pre-Nicene Christian Church, one of the major fountainheads of Gnostic Christian spirituality in the English-speaking world, and later traveled widely in the USA and elsewhere, teaching students, ordaining priests, and consecrating bishops, until his death in 1977. I've recently had the chance to study more of his writings and have discovered that he was much more influential a source for the Gnostic material I received than I'd realized -- so he's this week's honoree.
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Re: SoP Banishing with Spirit Above
2) I don't recommend this. Just keep doing the practice.
3) Instead of trying to banish them, you might try invoking energies the people praying for you can't handle. I find that earth goddesses work well for me, though I know people who like to invoke the equivalents of Aphrodite and Pan in such situations.
Re: SoP Banishing with Spirit Above
(Anonymous) 2023-01-24 03:33 am (UTC)(link)I've been doing some more thinking about the whole business of banishing in Spirit. Is part of the the reason we avoid banishing Spirit Above/Below/Within similar to why people seeking to command angels and other higher beings are wasting their time? We don't have any authority or power over them, so there's no point in trying to shove them away with banishment on the one hand, nor would it make any sense to command one entity of Spirit Above to do anything to any other similar entity. We can just hang out an invite and hope someone shows up. Doing more is likely to be some combination of ineffective and offensive to Bigger Things.
I also understand on the Tree of Life, Spirit Above/Below/Within are across a discontinuity from the realms of the four Elements, so I suppose even if we did have powers at that level, banishing in those realms is likely to have effects that would be very real but difficult to appreciate in their entirety at our current level of spiritual development. If the room is dark, you should probably put the hammer down.
Is any of that on the right track?
Re: SoP Banishing with Spirit Above