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

Invoking and Banishing

[hearthculture]

In the SOP, I notice that I verbally invoke elements, and draw an elemental symbol of invoking.
Then I verbally banish harmful-influences/imbalances/etc with the help of the elemental powers, and draw an elemental symbol of banishing.

In my understanding, I am not intending to banish the element and it's powers along with the harmful-influences/imbalances/etc., but just using their help to banish while their energies and powers remain.
1. Is this correct?
2. If this is correct, what do the symbols drawn actually do?
3. Do the symbols follow the words used and only invoke or banish what is spoken, so that the banishing is limited to only what I speak and intend?
4. Do the symbols invoke and banish something on their own separate from the verbal formulation?
5. Is there a time when you would use the symbols separate from one another? I.e. would there be a time when you would only banish without first invoking or vice versa?


Thank you for this space, your time, and your experience.

Re: Invoking and Banishing

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, it's correct.

2) They serve as a focus for your will.

3) They serve as a focus for your will.

4) They serve as a focus for your will.

5) Not in this ritual.

Re: Invoking and Banishing

[hearthculture]

I had a brief moment of feeling chastised by the repetition, but I quickly internalized that these responses very clearly and succinctly answer all my questions; and in sum, they deepen my understanding such that further questions are self-explanatory. I appreciate your help!

Re: Invoking and Banishing

[ecosophia]

I didn't mean it as a chastisement. It was simply the clearest way I could make the point, which answers each of those questions.

Re: Invoking and Banishing

[hearthculture]

I appreciate the clarification; and I quickly realized that you did not intend it that way - it really was informative to have the answer repeated because it set into my mind that "serving as a focus for my will" has multiple applications and implications. Thank you again.