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. At this point I've cycled back to Sandra Tabatha Cicero, current head of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA), in order to work back along a different lineage. The gentleman above? That's Francis Israel Regardie, the man who kept the Golden Dawn tradition from ending up in a dumpster like so many other occult traditions in the bleak middle years of the twentieth century. Born in England but raised in the United States, Regardie became a member of the SRIA in his teens, then became Aleister Crowley's personal secretary for a while before the Beast's antics got too extreme for him to handle. From there he joined one of the few surviving lodges of the Stella Matutina, one of the splinter orders founded after the Golden Dawn blew sky high in 1903, and also studied with Dion Fortune for a while. Finally he returned to the US, where he taught most of a generation of Golden Dawn practitioners, including Tabby Cicero. I never met him, but his books were essential guides during my Golden Dawn period.

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With that said, have at it!

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

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[ecosophia]

Meditation on its own -- especially mind-emptying meditation methods -- can really mess you over if you pull it out of its proper context. It's subject to the GIGO principle -- garbage in, garbage out -- which is why spiritual traditions that practice meditation also encourage practitioners to study scriptures or other respected sources of ideas, so their meditations won't take them off to La-La Land. Harare and Harris don't have that source of stability. I'm not familiar with Brand's work, but if he's got Manly P. Hall on his bookshelf, as AT Groundhog suggests above, he's in good hands.