Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's almost 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 and the teachers who influenced them in turn.  Like Allan Bennett, who we discussed last week, this week's honoree was a teacher of Aleister Crowley. George Cecil Jones was the man who introduced Crowley to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and later on helped Crowley found the Argenteum Astrum (Order of the Silver Star, or A∴A∴), the first of the two magical orders the Not-so-great Beast headed during his lifetime. (The other, the Ordo Templi Orientis or OTO, will be discussed next week.) Jones was a working chemist and metallurgist as well as a serious student of the occult. He practiced the magical virtue of silence more effectively than most of his contemporaries, however, and very little seems to be known about him.

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A handful of questions here - while we're far from developing a mental body, what happens to our material bodies as we reach or get near that goal? Do they weaken accordingly?

In learning about souls coming down to the material plane and becoming material objects, I went around sensing all the objects around me, in nature or human-made (or machine-made.) No response from the rug under my feet or anything made of concrete or plastic (no surprise), but a faint response from the all-wood gazebo. Then I thought of things like sailing ships and even some vehicles, which people give names to and talk to at times and seem to think they have souls of a sort. Musical instruments? Ask any violinist, for example, and the answer's likely to be a resounding "Yes." So, do these objects have souls of any sort?

Not a question, but when you reassured a beginner than beginners often make mistakes in ritual, let me add another category of people who do - tired old folks at the end of the day, especially if it's been a rough day. I remember one night I had to restart my LBRP three times running! Just in case any other readers run into that situation. Thanks,

Gambage Obstreperous Goblin

[ecosophia]

1) Human beings vary in how close they are to developing a mental body. Some are on the brink of doing so, or have actually achieved it -- we call these latter individuals saints, sages, and adepts. The material body remains largely unaffected until the end of the incarnation when that happens, but that's their last material incarnation.

2) Yes. Wood is very good at conducting and storing subtle energies, so any wooden object that is the focus of emotion and attention develops an elemental soul, which lasts as long as the object does. A violin that's had several owners and been played many times can be quite lively, and have decided opinions.

3) A good point!