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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! Dion Fortune - that brought to mind her book, "The Magical for Britain". The other evening, my husband had the TV on, one of the history channels (via antenna, NOT a paid channel - 'free' TV is slimy enough & if it were up to me I wouldn't have the idiot box in my house. Sorry for the digression). Anyhow the announcer, in talking about upcoming programs, asked "did Great Britain use magic to help win WWII?". I never did find out when this program would be broadcast. Nevertheless, I thought it was an interesting teaser. It would have been interesting to hear if that program would have offered more than the usual silliness.

On an unrelated note, last night on the radio, I heard that not only is Saudi Arabia going to cut oil production for the rest of the year, but neighboring countries doing so as well. But oddly enough, when I was reflecting on that bit of news, I did not get the usual feeling of dread, but got a reassuring sense that this is ultimately a positive development for the people this country (USA), in spite of all the difficulties and hardship*! This 'sense' didn't seem to come from my own thoughts or wishful thinking, but rather from something/someone 'out there'. Any ideas of what this could be? Or am I simply deluded? (FYI - there was no commentary on this announcement, and certainly no mention of "they'll think of something".
*difficulties & hardships relative to the USA, many other places face greater problems.

[ecosophia]

1) Hmm! This is good news. The more people realize that there are things you can do to attune to spiritual forces, and that Dion Fortune's approach to this process works, the better.

2) That's fascinating. No, I don't have any sense of what might be talking to you, but it wouldn't surprise me a bit if that turns out to be true. In a future post over on the blog I plan on talking about promising indications that people are shaking themselves out of the corporate trance.