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 and George Cecil Jones, who were introduced over the last two weeks, this week's honoree was a teacher of Aleister Crowley. Theodor Reuss was a German occultist and Freemason who, like our past honoree Sylvester Gould, was a member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light, the successor order of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (HB of L). He founded and headed the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), a magical lodge originally envisioned by Austrian occultist Carl Kellner, which passed on the occult traditions of the HB of L and certain specific teachings that originated in another of our earlier honorees, African-American occultist Paschal Beverly Randolph. Reuss passed on the teachings of the OTO to Crowley and eventually made him the head of the OTO in the English-speaking world, setting off a cascade of events that would make a first-rate melodrama or a really good tell-all book. Since I'm not a member of the OTO, my only connection with any of that story is that one of my teachers was taught by a student of a student of Reuss...

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Hi JMG

You might have seen the news coverage of the President of Mexico tweeting (in all seriousness) a picture of what he claimed to be an "alux" - which essentially seems to be the Mexican/Spanish name for a Faerie creature.

https://news.sky.com/story/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-shares-photo-of-mythological-woodland-alux-on-social-media-12821580

Unsurprisingly he's been ridiculed for it in the mainstream media.

Do you think it's actually a faerie creature? And why would a world leader risk this kind of ridicule to post a picture like that?

If I a may. Well I don't know about the alux, it looks like any other fake creepypasta pictures despite that I do recognize the existence of non-physical beings. One reason is that our president is just not that smart... Even though I think the "detentes" (basically a christian charm to repel evil) he suggested for people to use during the pandemic was interesting, I wouldn't have said it on national T.V nor suggested it would save you either.

I don't think you give enough credit to our president, my friend.

Leaving aside the existence of alluxes (which I think are real, but probably not that photogenic). You may think of AMLO as the Mexican version of Donald Trump: he's got the adoration of the people and the personal charisma to pull off lots of nonsense, and he will use that to play his opponents like a fiddle. So the question is not what the president is thinking, but what is happening in Congress while he mumbles his rivals into a rabid frenzy.

Beliefs in otherworldly beings has never gone away. Back in the late 1990s a highway in County Clare, Ireland was rerouted due to a belief that a hawthorn tree was a fairy tree and ill luck would result from any attempt to chop it down. The highway was rerouted though this didn't stop some idiot from chain-sawing off the branches leaving only the trunk afterwards. But as I can personally attest from my own hawthorns, this was an exercise in futility as the tree regenerated back to its former glory as if nothing had happened.

People may laugh at the Mexican president but given the above comments about the reappearance of eyeglasses, it's clear that we have invisible neighbors.

JLfromNH/Polka-dot Barmy Sea Serpent

I'm not a photo analyst and so don't have an opinion on the reliability or otherwise of the photo image. My question is whether Lopez Obrador might have some agenda in mind -- but I don't know Mexican cultural politics well enough to guess.

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