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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MOE Attunement question

[(Anonymous)]

Regular poster here, anonymous for privacy.

JMG, thanks very much for the attunement on Saturday! I suppose I‘m one of the people who gave off nervous vibes, see below…

I have a question related to the upcoming MOE work where I really need some help or advice.

About a week or so before this attunement, I started having really strong etheric feelings (buzzing, tingling, etc), on a level I‘ve never had before (a week of etheric thunderstorms).

I‘m used to having such etheric feelings, e.g. when I‘m working through stuff, letting go of things (e.g. in work similar to Octagon Society), or when getting in touch with the divine (planetary work). All of that is fine, mostly pleasant and doesn‘t scare me, but this time was a whole new level, both in intensity and in duration.

The etheric feelings alone would have been unpleasantly intense, but they had some physical effects on my body which seriously worried me (not going into details here, as I‘m not looking for medical advice!!). At some points during last week, I was seriously considering at which point I‘d need to see an allopathic doctor to get treatment in order to avoid potentially serious health issues - which is something I avoid like the plague.

I.e. this was seriously too much. Also, I wasn‘t sure for a few days what was causing it. I had a couple of other working hypotheses, but since the whole thing stopped effective immediately with the attunement (I‘ve only had some very mild, nice and balmy occasional „after-feelings“), it‘s probably safe to say it was some form of build up to that.

Such build up effects are quite common for me, I tend to get them whenever I do timed occult work, e.g. planetary work. But usually, they are noticeable, but gentle and well bearable, mostly on the etheric or astral, with only minor physical effects if at all (say, some sleepless hours in the night before), and they last the night before, or maybe a day or two. (In comparison: The build up effects to the first attunement have been along these lines)

This was a wholly different kind of beast - and one I don‘t care to repeat.

That’s why I would really need your help or advice: Is there anything I can or should do, maybe starting now, to make sure the next attunement build up won‘t be as intense (and definitely not even more intense)?

My best idea so far was that maybe the MOE energy has been re-structuring some parts of my etheric body. So in order to make that less intense, maybe I should intensify my practice, so some of that restructuring is done beforehand? But I have no clue whether that is right or not.

Any advice appreciated!

PS: I‘d really like to continue with the MOE work. It‘s doing me a lot of good, it feels like the right thing to pursue at this time, and divination had been positive, too. So giving it up altogether (if I even could - I suppose some effects can‘t be wiped out, can they?) would be my absolutely last resort.

Also, I know I don‘t have to take the attunements, but I‘m not sure this would help. At this point, it feels that I‘m so attuned (bad pun, sorry!) to the process that I might pick up on the next one even if I don‘t intent to participate - as I picked up on this one several days before, and frankly, I‘m not sure the issues and energy would have stopped by now if I hadn‘t taken the attunement on Saturday (I did consider this during last week when I wasn‘t sure about the cause, since I didn‘t want to add extra stress on top of the rest, but in hindsight I‘m _very_ glad I followed along!!)

Anyway, sorry for the longish explanation, but I really would need your expert help here.

Re: MOE Attunement question

[ecosophia]

Interesting. In the runup to the Master attunement, make sure that you eat plenty of meat -- this helps ground you and makes your body slower to react to energy flows -- and get plenty of rest. If you can arrange for this, a full-body massage or two beforehand can also help. I'd also encourage you to keep doing the MOE practices daily -- that'll also help clear the channels in your energy body.

It seems likely to me that you may be unusually good at this work -- and it's not impossible that you practiced it in a previous life.

Re: MOE Attunement question

[(Anonymous)]

Grounding it is, then. Thanks a lot!!

I have already informed my partner about the upcoming massages… :D

Re: MOE Attunement question

[team10tim]

Sorry, I must have missed something.

What is this attunement of which you speak?

Re: MOE Attunement question

[ecosophia]

Yes, you've missed something! You can find the series of posts here:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/tag/modern+order+of+essenes