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. Several weeks ago we got to Theodor Reuss, and a step back from him -- and also from Rudolf Steiner, who was honored a while further back -- brings us to John Yarker, this week's honoree. Yarker was the late nineteenth century's most prolific collector and marketer of fringe Masonic degrees and rites. Born in 1833, he became a Freemason in 1854 and never looked back. If there was an oddball Masonic rite anywhere, he was probably a member. That's why Steiner and Reuss both turned to him:  they each wanted access to the 99 degrees of the Rite of Memphis and Misraim as a basis for their own initiatory projects. Steiner's Misraim-Dienst never really got off the ground, though his papers on the subject make fascinating reading, but Reuss used his charter as the basis for the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO), which is still around in several forms. Myself, I'm not a member of either the OTO or the Rite of Memphis and Misraim; Yarker's connection with me is very roundabout -- except, of course, that I'm also a Freemason.

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

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hi

[(Anonymous)]

Hi folks,

The big project I've been working on these last 3 years will either pass to the next phase, or fall apart this Friday.


Requesting a prayer and some energy to it, and me.

Re: hi

[ecosophia]

Positive energy en route!

Re: hi

[(Anonymous)]

Praying for your success ♥️