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!***

Comments

Qs

[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG,

Had some questions for you today.

1) Something I've been pondering lately is sort of the correlate to Spengler's morphological civilisations theory, which is the possible idea that great souls incarnate at certain times in certain civilisations much more frequently, and that drives the growth/expansion/creativity phase of that civilisation, before things turn towards a slow collapse. Historically you see great men and women more frequently as a civilisation ascends, while successors are often weak/venal etc.

I certainly felt a tinge of this in Italy on a recent trip, which while having a veneer of beauty, seems in terminal decline, with a very poor culture, stuck in the 50s, greedy, self centered, low trust, etc, despite being the land of both the renaissance and rome, no such energy is there to be found today (and I feel similar about India where I am from, though India seems on the opposite path in terms of finding its way out).

What do you think of this/does the occult have anything to say about this? Do souls migrate between civilisations over the course of time to find the right scope for their karma and then move on to higher planes?

2.In horary, what house would represent the query "which 2nd language should i learn?" L3 or L5?
3. Similarly, if I had to ask "which area or building should i set up my office space in?" what would be the signifier for that query?

Thank you, once again.

Re: Qs

[ecosophia]

1) I figure Italy is still catching its breath -- historically speaking, the Renaissance wasn't that long ago! But it's a fascinating question. Do great eras happen because great souls incarnate, or are there great souls in every era, but great eras happen because certain conditions allow the great souls more room for activity than usual? Certainly, though, souls seek out the conditions that will allow them to work through their karma and get the experiences they need, and that can certainly involve a shift in cultures.

2) I'd treat the first question as a 3rd house issue and the second as a 4th house issue (like everything having to do with real estate).