ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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I'd like to ask a question by which I mean absolutely no disrespect to John Gilbert or the teachings he has shared with us - this is just a humble, I'm-chewing-on-this, question:

I believe you mentioned that he died after a lengthy illness and I wonder if you are aware of how he might have reconciled the MOE teachings (that all illness is spiritual [that trickles down the planes] and that all illness can be healed) with that experience. If you don't know of his own take on it, might you theorize/provide your own thoughts briefly?

(I can see that each soul experiences exactly what it needs to, to develop toward its highest good, and I suppose that's a good enough answer, though I wonder then, why maintain the kind of wording/attitude found in the MOE texts?...)

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Along similar lines (energy healing), I came across this article the other day (via a link somewhere on Gerald Pollock's lab site) that might be of some interest here.

(free of charge: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0161/7154/files/EdgeScience-Magazine-v3.pdf?7861)

The tl;dr is that a science-minded guy met a self-described psychic and together they explored his abilities, discovering a method of healing that scientist-guy went on to test in a lab. To his surprise, he was able to achieve a 100% cure rate on mice with a cancer with an expected 100% fatality rate. He replicated it several times but (obviously) couldn't get funding/widespread interest.

What was interesting to me was that the method he used seems very much like the MOE healing hands technique.

Also, I found it particularly amusing to see his blind spot: he planned his research so that it involved "no rituals" - and yet I can guarantee it was chock full of approved sciency-rituals that (unbeknownst to him) probably served a purpose similar to those informed by a spiritual/religious approach.

Oh, and he also noticed some magnetic signals that might be reminiscent of the temple tech, and EEG entrainment between healer and healee that ties in with Buhner's work on heart entrainment, plant communication, and healing.

Fun stuff!

1) I passed on the MOE material pretty much as I received it, with only cosmetic edits. If I'd written the thing myself, I wouldn't have claimed that all illnesses are curable, because that simply isn't true. Everybody can be helped by spiritual healing, but sometimes the help you can get is a matter of being able to function better with an illness, and sometimes it's simply a matter of dealing more gracefully with your own mortality. Life is a terminal illness, and we all die of something.

2) Interesting! Thank you for this.

I’d have to say I’m with you on this one. Maybe someday someone will carry their MOE practices far enough to be able to reissue the system with a similarly realistic approach.

In the meantime, I suppose its claims are a useful hypothesis and a framework of metaphors from which to view human experience. A series of calisthenics to try out and strengthen certain muscles.

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