Magic Monday
Jan. 22nd, 2023 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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. 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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Date: 2023-01-23 06:36 am (UTC)There are a few things that have been notable here. Number one was Greg Reese of Infowars effectively rehashing/shortening a Mark Passio lecture on de facto Satanism. Now, anyone who is knitting their underpants in frenzied anticipation of a new Satanic Panic should take a chill pill. Passio's schtick is to point out how materialist Christianity and materialism in general is essentially worshipping the other side. Passio is an ex-Satanist who inveighs against Satanism and encourages serious study of the occult.
The second synchronicity is a bit more personal and has to do with the Orphic Hymns. There was a weird night about a month ago where I went to a local open mic here in the western suburbs of Chicago, borrowed a guitar, and sang some Orphic Hymns because that is what I have ready and practiced. They went over surprisingly well, and since it was a slow night, I did have a moment to explain what they were. There has been another surprising positive development that I will reveal only if it all works out with the Hymns -- suffice to say there is far more interest in a bunch of folk songs about the Greek gods with super-nerdy lyrics than I expected.
The third and fourth synchronicity can be bunched together -- there are a couple of Bitchuters reposting occultists and esoteric materials. One was a link to Youtube occultist Theoria Apophasis and the other was this video that mentions the Essenes and Manly P. Hall:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/wqnDuLix3jIW/
Magic is in the air... specifically Western magic. Fingers crossed that this trend continues!
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Date: 2023-01-23 06:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-23 07:02 pm (UTC)Hi Kimberly,
Hehe. I have another surprising development for you. Yesterday I was at the Theosophical Society in Seattle and to my surprise I saw like 6 people inside buying books and chatting with Greg, I have not seen that many people in years there, its always Linda or Greg and myself. Greg always loves to chat and to tell us about his experiences and the people he meets, but his eyes were wider than usual, and he was also particularly jolly --that tells me business is increasing because I also saw a new stack of books that Greg lets me skim. That stack of books included JMG's new The Ceremony of The Grail and Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki's The Magical Use of Thought Forms and The Ritual Magic Workbook. I snatched the three of them before they landed on the Ritual Magic section --exhausting my book budget, but it was so worth it.
I went on to the back to the library and lo and behold there's a new volunteer and three young gals about 5 years younger my age discussing the Three of Cups (I know) on the table. I joined them and I see nicely colored Tree of Life Diagrams on their notebooks, some chat about how to write Hebrew letters and copies of Dowsing for beginners and Dion Fortune's The Mystical Cabala. I took my stack out and started studying my geomantic notes until I got asked what I was doing, since I was tossing coins without giving any explanation. Then I proceeded to talk more than I should about triplicities and elemental lines and when I noted the usual gesture of 'you've lost me' I offered her a reading, I got a smile --good sign. She was going to one of the parks later that day to do a spell to improve her connection to deity, of which my coins said it would be successful. She went away joyfully to do her spell later that night after talking Tarot and magic for like two hours. It was rather magical!
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Date: 2023-01-23 08:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-01-23 10:17 pm (UTC)Nice! I would love to see Bach played live.
The discussions over at Agostino's Catholic and Orthodox Occultism group are also very active lately like this from the YT channel Esoterica: Ancient Christian Magic: Protection, Exorcism and Love Magic from Ancient Coptic Texts that talks about the pagan influences on Christian spells among other things.
Greg Reese
Date: 2023-01-23 08:50 pm (UTC)Since Christian Truthers are a large component of the Greg Reese/Infowars audience, this message featuring previously taboo symbolism saying that "true Satanists don't wear robes and they don't want the average civilian to study the occult because they want you to remain a sheep" is potentially tidal.
Here is the video:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/RGlzoOULKyjt/
Here is my essay criticizing Truthers and what I perceive as their war on the occult:
https://kimberlysteele.dreamwidth.org/80934.html