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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Dear JMG,
I have a friend who has never been able to sleep alone. When he does, he wakes up every hour. When he sleeps with a woman, he can sleep through the night.

My friend is a retired homicide detective and I am wondering if he has picked up some contamination from his job. He is a practicing Catholic but does not do any sort of banishing ritual or other forms of protective magic. I had an intuition that his astral or etheric body might be damaged in some way. What do you think?

I know the logical course of action is to make a friend he can sleep with but he has recently lost his wife of many years and doesn't want to get into a relationship with a woman just now.

Maxine

Hmm! That's not something I've heard of before. You might try some kind of healing practice if he's good with that.

Thank you for that. Do you think journaling might be a healing practice in this instance? If not, do you have a practice that you would recommend?
Maxine

No, journaling won't work with the etheric and dense astral bodies. Some kind of energy healing might be useful, if you or anyone you know can do that.

Thanks for that. Now I have some place to start looking.
Thanks,
Maxine

I can't sleep without my partner next to me in bed at night. I always thought it was because humans aren't made for sleeping alone.

I'm now in early middle age, and I have slept alone virtually my entire life. In fact, having someone else in the bed is a sure way to make sure I have a lousy night's sleep. We humans are a diverse lot, I suppose.

Until I married, I was only able to sleep if I had classical music playing. My husband has served quite well as a replacement.

The interesting bit of this, and why it might be relevent, is that I was unable to sleep because of the constant possible-future-dreams. I still get those, but not hour after hour night after night, just occasionally.

In your friend's case, would he be willing to try queuing up eight hours of medieval or classical era Catholic music and running it very softly? It's good stuff, lyrics and music both, so if he can sleep at all with music on, it won't do any harm.

BoysMom

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