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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

Judson Exercise; mundane astrology

[(Anonymous)]

Good morning JMG and everybody else,

I hope you are all having a wonderful start into the week - and as always, thank you very much to you, JMG, for hosting this space and patiently sharing your knowledge and wisdom!

Two questions today, if I may:

1. Do you mind if people spread the word about the Judson exercise elsewhere, e.g. on their own websites? Or would you rather it wasn’t mentioned elsewhere?

(I‘m not talking about copyright violations, btw - i.e. not copying your text, but writing about it in one‘s own words.)

2. Mundane astrology:

Do you know if there were other books about mundane astrology, besides Green, which were well-known or widespread back in the day? In particular texts or material with other approaches or different viewpoints than Green‘s?

I‘m searching for something, but I‘m afraid I can‘t quite put into words what it is I‘m searching for. :-) Hence I’m casting a wide search net - anything you‘d care to mention which is remotely connected to mundane astrology techniques would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Milkyway

Re: Judson Exercise; mundane astrology

[ecosophia]

1) By all means spread the Judson exercise wherever you like! It's in the public domain. You can quote me verbatim, too, so long as you include a link to my original post on the subject:

https://ecosophia.dreamwidth.org/126779.html

2) Not since the Renaissance, no. One of the reasons I use Green so extensively is that his book and Raphael's Mundane Astrology, which is very similar, are among the very few worthwhile works since William Ramesey's book on the subject from 1653.

Re: Judson Exercise; mundane astrology

[gullindagan]

How far "back in the day"? The Rennaissance astrologers read Abu Mashar and Masha'allah, a good book by Benjamin Dykes with translations of the Arabic material is "Astrology of the World II: Revolutions & History" pub. 2014