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. Last week's honoree was 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.  Regardie's first teacher was George Winslow Plummer, founder and longtime head of the Societas Rosicruciana in America (SRIA), who's already been introduced here. His second, much more famous teacher, however, was Edward Alexander "Aleister" Crowley, self-proclaimed messiah of the New Aeon, mass media-anointed Wickedest Man in the World, and problem child of the early twentieth century British occult scene. Regular readers will know that I'm not a fan, but Crowley had a substantial influence on Regardie and also on a wide range of other occult teachers and their scenes.  Now that all his writings are out of copyright and becoming available for free download on various sites, it'll be interesting to see what happens to his legacy.

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

As always, thank you for everything you do, JMG! A few questions...

1. Relating to the post photo + blurb above, would it be appropriate to joke that the ol' Beast is the Black Sheep of your lineage? ;)

2. I've been comparing and contrasting the descriptions of the various nonphysical beings given in the FHR documents with those describe in your book Monsters. Would it be fair to say that the "nature spirits" in the FHR docs (gnomes, undines, ect.) that one can interact with via element gate scryings might actually be Fays? In the former, the nature spirits are clearly differentiated from elementals, which leads me to cross elementals off my list as to what this spirits might be. The closest description so far as that of the Fay beings. Also, it seems to me that nature spirits are probably etheric beings, given their function in nature.

3. According to the CosDoc schema, which evolutionary line might Fays and/or nature spirits belong to? Ours? Or a totally separate/parallel one?

[ecosophia]

1) I think more highly of sheep than that. ;-)

2) That's at least plausible.

3) If I understand correctly, they are a different evolutionary line entirely.