Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past 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 taking a momentary break from chasing down photos of my lineage. Today is the spring equinox here in the northern hemisphere, one of the holy days of the Druid calendar, and this is a photo of the spring equinox sunrise as seen from an ancient stone chamber at South Royalton, Vermont -- one of many astronomically oriented megalithic sites here in New England. The photo's courtesy of New England Antiquities Research Association (NEARA), which was gracious enough to send it around yesterday morning.

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

Comments

[ecosophia]

Most forms of ceremonial magic don't use the Enochian system at all. For that matter, plenty of Golden Dawn mages don't make use of the Enochian material. I did enough with Enochian to be sure I understood it, but I never liked it much, and my books on GD magic (Paths of Wisdom, Circles of Power, Learning Ritual Magic) all leave out the Enochian material, because it's not central to the GD system -- it's more an add-on that can be left off.

I'm not surprised to hear that the soi-disant "Magic Resistance" is messing around with Enochian, though. There's a strong streak of faddishness in that movement, and also a very strong tendency to pursue unbalanced power...

[(Anonymous)]

is the pursuit unbalanced power a trait of Enochian magic in the past life would it be a good antidote in this life to have balanced power? what magic system or subsystem brings balanced power, can it be done without ceremonial magic?

What other faulty things can result from Enochian magic in a past life and how can be replace with better magical systems in this life?

I apologise for the flurry of question, and thank you for the answers to my previous questions

[ecosophia]

Any system of magic can be used in a balanced or an unbalanced way, but some are easier to use in a balanced fashion than others. Yes, there are many modes of magic that can be done in a balanced fashion without getting into ceremonial work, but in some ways it's easier to maintain balance if you have the tools of the ceremonial path available.

As for the long term effects of Enochian magic, I haven't worked with anybody who misused it in a past life, so I don't happen to know!

Balanced path

[(Anonymous)]

I’ve found Bardon’s path to be very balanced. Particularly if you really treat the sections on self-cognizance as part of the daily practice and let yourself change those things.