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Magic Monday
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. Quite a while ago we reached Israel Regardie, and then chased his lineage back through Aleister Crowley et al. After he left Crowley, however, Regardie also spent a while studying with this week's honoree, the redoubtable Violet Firth Evans, better known to generations of occultists as Dion Fortune. Born in Wales and raised in a Christian Science family, Fortune got into occultism after a stint as a Freudian lay therapist -- that was an option in her time. She was active in the Theosophical Society, belonged to two different branches of the Golden Dawn, studied with a number of teachers, and then founded her own magical order, the Fraternity (now Society) of the Inner Light. She also wrote some first-rate magical novels and no shortage of books and essays on occultism, including The Cosmic Doctrine, the twentieth century's most important work of occult philosophy. I'm pleased to be only four degrees of separation from her.
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His work looks interesting and at least according to the french wikipedia he was along the lines of New Thought in some way and seems to have followed Levi's line on the more occultish side, as I assume many French occultists did. The book I mentioned follows the same pattern of using the Trumps as chapters but I couldn't find any of his books in English. Archive does have a short one on Magnetism and healing and a longer one on the power of the will. Scribd has a couple chapters about his book Méthode pratique de magnétisme, hypnotisme, suggestion : cours d'expérimentation à la portée de tous which seems available for purchase on the major ebook providers. I found this excerpt interesting:
1) My french is not good at all but am I understanding correctly that by "l'arête médiane postérieure" and "antérieure" it is meant that the front side of the body is positive and the back side negative?
2) By some comments I think this is standard division on polarity in the body in western occultism. I wonder if you could clarify how does the anterior and posterior polarity relate to the left and right polarity? While trying to picture it, it isn't clear to me how can it be, for example, that the right side is positive while the front and back is negative (since the right side of the body has both front and back parts). Perhaps it depends if it is closer to the center of the body or to the surface of the body?
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