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

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Annotated Bibliography on Germanish Religion and Request for Sources

[jprussell]

Good Evening,

First off, thanks much to everyone here for all of the wonderful questions and insights you share, and to JMG for answering questions week after week.

To Share: I always love an annotated bibliography, so I thought I might get started on one for Germanic Religion/mythology here: https://jpowellrussell.com/#list_of_books_on_germanish_belief_with_thoughts I'm still adding my thoughts and organizing some of the entries (weekend got busier with kids than expected), but I thought I'd share what I have so far in case it's helpful to anyone else.

To Ask: As large as the list above already is, I'm always happy to add more. So, JMG if you have thoughts I'd love to hear them, but given the subject, I suspect the commentariat might have more: do you know of any works relevant to Germanic religion/mythology you can recommend? Note that I don't expect anyone to go through my whole list linked above to check if a suggestion is already there. Also, to save JMG work in approving comments, feel free to comment on my dreamwidth post here with any such suggestions: https://jprussell.dreamwidth.org/2951.html

As always, thanks very much to JMG and those reading and posting here for your time and thoughts.

To any who will have them, I put forth my blessings and best wishes,
Jeff

Re: Annotated Bibliography on Germanish Religion and Request for Sources

[ecosophia]

You've got everything there that I know of -- but of course I'm not especially well read in Heathen sources and scholarship. It's an interesting project.