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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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2) I think I might be doing a lot of that... I tend to feel emotions very real and powerfully. I know this will sound very silly and childish but how does one practice doing things without an emotion? I would like for me to control them not the other way around and after several notebooks of journaling it's clear that is one of my main if not the main barrier for me right now. It sounds very helpful to be able to do or not do (or imagine) things without it depending on them feeling good or on it be difficult because of you hating them. Working on an affirmation to start changing my life has proven to me just how fickle I am in that sense. If I didn't like the occult, I wouldn't have been able to do daily practices at all I think.
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2) There's no easy way. Choose little things and work on doing things calmly, just because you choose to do them, without emotional involvement. Work up from there.
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I think you wrote a whole series of post on training the will and sounds very much like what I recall from them. I think that's it, I have a very dispersed and contradictory will.
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My Saturn Return agrees! I know I can have a good life, even a great life and I want to grow strong enough to go get it, even though right now I clearly don't feel that I am capable of doing it or what it looks like.