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

Comments

Re: An Oddball Question

[kimberlysteele]

I once lost a banana in a 150 square foot dorm room. 4 people searched for over an hour and finally found it between the couch/bed cushions. I can only blame my own talent for losing things and not the fairies on that one.

That said, many years later in 2016 when my husband and I bought our current little house, I started putting out bird feeders and water for miscellaneous wandering animals. The first winter there was snowy and blustery. We were storing birdseed on the rickety old front porch and I had the S hook for one of the feeders in my hand. I was on the steps when the S hook slipped and fell into a crack between two of the steps. I knew there was no freaking way I was retrieving the hook until spring, so I made do with some hairbands and heaven knows what else and put the filled bird feeders back up that way. I did not tell anyone about the missing S hook or where it was. I just chalked it up to life being annoying. The next morning, I got in my car to drive to work. I felt something on my behind. The S hook was on my car seat. The car had been locked the whole night! I am convinced it was the fairies.