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. Last week's honoree, Theodor Reuss, got the idea and many of the teachings that went into the Ordo Templi Orientis from this man, Carl Kellner. Kellner was an Austrian chemist and a successful industrialist who made a tolerably large fortune by creating and patenting a new process for manufacturing wood pulp for paper. He was also, as the photo shows, something of a dandy; let it never be said that all occultists are dowdy!

In his off hours, he was an active Freemason and a student of occultism. A member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, he also studied with European students of our old friend, Paschal Beverly Randolph, and with several Hindu gurus and a Sufi shaykh. He drew up plans for an occult order that would pass on Randolph's sexual gnosis using rituals like those of Freemasonry. Before he could complete the plan, however, he was struck down with a sudden unexplained illness, recovered somewhat after a long hospital stay, and then suddenly died. (There's some reason to think that he'd been experimenting with kundalini yoga -- not the modern, simplified, safe version, but the old robust teachings that can drop you dead in your tracks if you don't have a guru watching you on a daily basis.) 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 a student of Kellner; still, thin as it is, the connection is there.

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

Comments

Planetary charity clarification

[(Anonymous)]

Hiya JMG--

Thank you for your assistance. I appreciate it. I need a clarification about planetary charity. A planet like Mercury covers a wide array of activities/areas of influence. If you need help with a medical issue, for example, does that mean you want a medical type charity and if you want help with a business/career related issue, you pick a business type charity? Or can you pick anything that Mercury rules, regardless of why you need assistance? I'm needing help with better communication. I wanted to pick a theater related charity-- communicating with an audience--though I think that's more Venusian, probably as it's related to the arts. Just not sure what to pick.

I need some help from Mars to help me with my procrastination/lack of focus issues. I struggle with donating to warrior type charities; always seem so very depressing. So I was thinking maybe animals. Chris Warnock's site indicates that big cats like Leopards, Tigers, Panthers are Martian. I was thinking of finding a big cat charity of one sort or another-- would that be a good choice? Or maybe Eagles or horses?

Thanks again--
MJ from MA

Re: Planetary charity clarification

[ecosophia]

In my experience, anything that's appropriate to the planet is suitable, whether or not it has anything to do with the assistance you're asking for. With Mercury, I tend to make donations to a charity that helps children with speech, language, and reading issues -- that seems to work pretty consistently. In the same way, you can certainly donate to a Mars animal charity; aside from the ones you've mentioned, wolves are Martial, and so are all birds of prey, so a raptor rehabilitation center would be a great choice, and so would be a wolf charity.