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

Insight

[(Anonymous)]

Happy Monday the 13th, JMG. Have a cooties related question and I apologize in advance to ask here but I figured if I had posted to the weekly open post you may not address. From what I’ve read on the threads since the start is that the vision that lead to the initial hypothesis was empty cities devoid of human presence. In the time since then, has meditation yielded anything further insight into the collective road ahead? From an occult perspective, what are you sensing now? I ask because from an astral perspective, something seems to building to an outburst. As always I appreciate all you do here and especially in maintaining the weekly posts as they have been an oasis of sanity in crazy times.

Re: Insight

[ecosophia]

Okay, first of all, the original vision was rather more complex than that. I saw empty urban neighborhoods and abandoned skyscrapers, but also neighborhoods and communities that were still inhabited and functioning; I saw sections of rural country where only the crumbling remains of houses and barns showed that anyone had ever lived there, and other sections that were settling back into a kind of early 20th century poverty-belt condition, with plenty of farms and rattletrap trucks hauling produce to market. I had (and have) no idea how much of this should be taken literally and how much of it is symbolic.

Those images remain in place. I've had several indications received in meditative states suggesting that the first serious wave of mass death as a result of the vaccines is just beginning to hit its stride. Is that to be taken literally or symbolically? Here again, I have no way to tell. That's the problem with visions -- as everyone who lived through the 2012 fiasco knows well!

As for the feeling of building toward some kind of drastic event, yeah, I feel it too. There's a sense of impending mess on the grand scale. We'll see what actually happens, though.

Re: Insight

[booklover1973]

In my opinion, that vision might simply a vision of life in 2050 or 2080 or something similar, because that came to mind after your description.

As for a feeling of something big happening, I didn't have any particular feelings except a bit of a sense of dread, and that only on two or three mornings.

Re: Insight

[homeopathic_meditations]

I don't know. The performance of the Black National Anthem (Lift Every Voice and Sing) during the Superbowl left me speechless. Had this happened in Mexico, I would have expected the event organizers be heavily fined and the performers' careers to receive a severe blow. Yet, you just sit back a let a bunch of radicals wipe their metaphorical derrieres with your (Sacred) National Symbols.

The Satanic Grammys was a truckload of cringe, but this is on a whole different level. I fear for America now.

Re: Insight

[(Anonymous)]

That whole event last night was quite weird to put it mildly.

Re: Insight

[illyria2001]

Or maybe life in and around New Palestine Ohio in the upcoming months. :(