Magic Monday
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It's just on 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 or comment 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. Last week's honoree, Violet Firth Evans aka Dion Fortune, had the great advantage of coming of age when the British occult community was close to its apogee, and she had plenty of teachers. Some of them, such as Moina Mathers, have already appeared here; some of them, such as Maiya Tranchell Hayes, apparently didn't leave any photographs behind -- but there are several others, and this is one of them: Frederick Bligh Bond, who was the official church archeologist at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey between the two world wars, and discovered a whole series of lost features by digs that just happened to go to the right place. Then it turned out that there was no "just happened" about it; he was using spiritualistic methods to talk to the spirits of long-dead monks, who told him where to dig. The church threw a fit and dismissed him, but he went on to publish several volumes about his experiences, at least one of which can be downloaded for free (here). Dion Fortune studied with him for a while and also did trance work with him; her connection with Glastonbury continued to the end of her life, and in fact she's buried there.
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Post on Narcissism and MOE Tree of Life Visualizations
Date: 2023-04-10 04:05 am (UTC)For those who observed it today, a happy Easter, and to our Jewish friends, my apologies for not extending best wishes for Passover last Monday. For everyone else, I hope April showers are falling on fertile ground.
To Share: Not /directly/ occult, but my latest post is summing up what I've learned about common, or garden variety, narcissism (as opposed to full-blown NPD) from the blog /The Last Psychiatrist/, and I think it might be a relevant topic for those pursuing personal growth and/or spiritual healing for yourself or others: https://jpowellrussell.com/#narcissism_and_me
To Ask: I've been a bit slow in getting to the Tree Of Life-based advanced practices for the MOE, but I'm starting to look at them. Two quick questions: 1) Should the visualizations of the tree on your body be done at the same time as the daily empowering of your healing hands, or as a separate exercise? 2) Are there any considerations for compatibility and/or timing for these visualizations versus others? In my case, I'm getting close to wrapping up the second grade of the Dolmen Arch, and so in the third I'll be starting up the cauldrons/Grail exercise, and I wanted to make sure there wasn't anything to worry about there.
As always, thanks very much to JMG and everyone else here for good thoughts, good talking, and good cheer.
To any who will have them, I put forth my blessings and best wishes,
Jeff
Re: Post on Narcissism and MOE Tree of Life Visualizations
Date: 2023-04-10 04:11 am (UTC)2) It shouldn't be a problem as long as you do the Dolmen Arch work at a different time from the MOE work.
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:18 am (UTC)2) regarding doing the DMH reenchantment rituals outdoors (not that I'll be performing them any time soon, but I just read them):
a) is a chair actually needed (if one could meditate standing or sitting on the ground)? For the proper meditation position for DMH methods?
b) could one do the shortened exercises for outdoors places often, if one was doing the full ones for oneself at home as often?
3) will there be a MOE post this Thursday, say for further attunement scheduling?
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:29 am (UTC)Here’s my question. I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday. But during the Discussion of the Wheat, I remembered a commercial jingle for same that’s older than Sonkitten, and this is not the first time I’ve recalled an ancient jingle. Do these jingles have a spell cast on them so you’ll never forget them? Or is it just that, there being no way to mute the commercials back in primitive times, repetition drove them into your mind, like times tables?
—Princess Cutekitten
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:33 am (UTC)2) A chair is useful but not necessary. You can sit on the ground if you need to. Yes, you can do the outdoor version as often as you like so long as you're also doing the full version.
3) I wasn't planning on it. Why?
(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-10 04:38 am (UTC)As for jingles, memorization of poetry is the oldest information storage method our species has ever developed, and we used it relentlessly with such great success for so many millennia that Darwinian selection has had time to work on it. The jingles, chants, and poems you hear over and over again in early childhood will remain with you all your life, and surface with particular force once you get old. That's so you can pass on the tribal lore to children once you're an elder. It's literally hardwired into all our brains.
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:41 am (UTC)3) just to know whether I should look for more questions on the MOE work until then. No worry, I'll probably make some on later MMs.
(Please don't cast me into Fido!)
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:44 am (UTC)1) If a healing hands session is to be performed in the morning should the activation for it be spaced from the morning empowering or can it be right after?
2) To the best of my knowledge, the lessons don't specify but I wonder if a healing hands session is best performed with an empty stomach condition for either spiritual healer or healee?
3) I am eager to keep practicing my MOE Healing Hands which I've done on myself for a while, but if anyone wishes to receive some healing energy sent their way I will do so for seven days. (If that's okay with JMG to post here).
Daydreams
Date: 2023-04-10 04:44 am (UTC)Something like 40 years ago, I had a brief flirtation with a lovely man. I only saw him three times and then my friends insisted I stop seeing him because he was not a criminal and therefore a danger to us all. We were working as narcotic smugglers at the time.
I regretted it extremely. I never even got to kiss him. I wished at the time that things had gone differently. Since then, every decade or two, I am seized by a sudden and violent longing for him. I then spend a lot of time daydreaming about him. I think I botched a major opportunity there although my life after that went well and I have been quite successful and even happy.
It just happened again recently but it is more extreme than ever before. He would be in his late seventies or eighty's now. He was a lot older than I was.
What I think is happening is that this is some kind of haunting. I am trying to make my daydreams of him very pleasant and successful as a way of letting him know how much I admired him and regreted listening to my halfwit friends. I am very tired and I am finding these dreams taking over at times. They are preventing me from sleeping.
How can I lay his ghost to rest?
Maxine
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Date: 2023-04-10 04:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-10 04:56 am (UTC)2) I've never tried doing healing on a full stomach, so I don't know. Experimentation might be useful.
3) It's certainly okay.
Re: Daydreams
Date: 2023-04-10 04:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-10 05:41 am (UTC)-Josh
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Date: 2023-04-10 05:49 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-10 05:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2023-04-10 06:10 am (UTC)2, to JMG, in a house chart, would I simply look in the 12th house for an answer to the question, “how can I rise above/be more victorious than my secret enemy?’ Or is this a multi-significator question describing a conflict between two opposing camps?
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Date: 2023-04-10 06:14 am (UTC)If I’m not mistaken, I believe I have heard you give the definition of magic a number of times to be, ‘the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will’, according to Dion Fortune. However, isn’t this Crowley’s quote where Dion Fortune actually said, magic is “the art of changing consciousness at will”, or I have also seen it as ,"The science and art of causing changes in consciousness in conformity with will’", which Crowley and Fortune have different meanings? One is to use magic to change one’s circumstances, the other is working on changing one’s reality in the mind. Which do you think defines it best?
If the point of classic Hermeticism is something like union with God, and the point of Buddhism is something like awakening from samsara to enlightenment, alchemy is to create the Philosopher’s Stone, if someone had no knowledge of anything Golden Dawn related, whether it is the original order, or such as your books, Circles of Power, Paths of Wisdom or Celtic Golden Dawn, and asked you to summarize the main objective and point for doing all that work over all that time, what would it be?
Thank you for your time!
Jeremy
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Date: 2023-04-10 06:18 am (UTC)Countless neural connections have been wasted preserving those mediocre indoctrinations. What might our species have been able to accomplish were it not for broadcast media?
- Christophe
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Date: 2023-04-10 06:38 am (UTC)I'll gladly send you some healing energy and since you are the first, I'll do so starting tomorrow until Sunday. I personally wouldn't know how to send energy to an anonymous username so if you feel so inclined to send either a picture of yourself or your name signed by your hand or other way of focusing it at you to the encrypted email address below that would be best, if not, I'll try my best :-)
open_space_healing_hands@protonmail.com
And yes, please, I will gladly receive some healing energy from you.
Cosmic Doctrine
Date: 2023-04-10 07:27 am (UTC)No question today just a thank you for the newly published commentary on the Cosmic Doctrine. I received my copy last week. I can see some helpful clarification has been added and so far it’s making it much easier to understand this fascinating book.
Kind regards Averagejoe
Ecosophia Prayer List
Date: 2023-04-10 07:30 am (UTC)If I missed anybody on the full list, or if you would like to add a prayer request for yourself or anyone who has given you consent (or for whom a relevant person holds power of consent) to the list, please feel free to leave a comment below and/or at the prayer list page.
This week I would like to bring special attention to a few prayer requests.
Patricia Mathew's friend Al (Alison Kulp) is in the hospital with a nasty life-threatening MRSA infection; please play for her to be blessed, protected, and completely healed as soon as is possible.
For Det and his recently deceased friend, that the divine grant them both spiritual protection, blessing and ease on their respective journeys.
Luke Dodson's friend B, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer, and is still in serious condition though she's already had surgery; for blessing, protection, healing, and a full return to health.
Lp9's request on behalf of their hometown, East Palestine Ohio, for the safety and welfare of their people and all living beings in the area. The details coming out are still caught in the fog of war (Lp9 gives a short update here, and says "things are a bit... murky"), and various claims of catastrophe and non-catastrophe are flying about, but the reasonable possibility seems to exist that this is an environmental disaster on par with the worst America has ever seen. At any rate, it is clearly having a devastating impact on the local area, and prayers are certainly warranted.
If there are any among you who might wish to join me in a bit of astrological timing, I pray each week for the health of all those with health problems on the list on the astrological hour of the Sun on Sundays, bearing in mind the Sun's rulerships of heart, brain, and vital energies. If this appeals to you, I invite you to join me.
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Date: 2023-04-10 07:43 am (UTC)A couple of minutes after the attunement, I noticed that when I closed my eyes, I seemed to be looking at horizontal planks of cherry wood, very flat with extremely fine grain and well-finished. I opened my eyes several times and closed them again, and saw the cherry wood when my eyes were closed. This persisted for several minutes, then no more cherry planks.
Briefly, this sort of wood is significant to me because it featured in a dream I had while my Father-in-Law was dying. I was with him in spirit while he died.
Questions:
1) Is this the sort of experience that was mentioned as happening after attunement?
2) It seems odd that I would see something that for me was more associated with a death--Is hospice a possible pathway of Essene healing practice?
Thank you JMG and commentariat for any insights or comments you can give.
JMG, I know you don't do dreams, but if anyone is interested I have included an account of that dream below:
The day of the attunement, the wood seemed familiar to me--
The next day, I remembered that I had had a dream of my father-in-law as he was dying, 15 years ago, which appeared in a woodcut made of this type of cherry wood. He was standing in a small round boat, typically made of leather stretched on a wood frame (called a coracle). I was invited by someone 'off-camera' to sit with him in the boat for a while if I liked. My father-in-law would not be able to see me or interact with me, but my presence would be some comfort to him.
Father-in-law was standing in the coracle, looking desperately to the left and right at the cherry wood-cut waves. He did not have a paddle, and the coracle seemed to be shrinking. And then suddenly, he stopped looking around. His arms dropped to his sides, and he stared over my head at something behind me.
I turned around--And suddenly the woodcut was gone, replaced by quiet, grey water with fog on top. And coming through the fog over the top of the water was Death.
Death was in the expected black robe with a hood, gliding slowly over the grey waters, directly towards the coracle. I could not see his face or hands, though the robe had arms. No sickle, just a Presence.
"Time for you to leave now," the 'off-camera' voice said, with a calm authority -- And I was suddenly awake in my bed, very shaken up.
Just before I was taken from the boat though, I noticed that, oddly, Death was wearing a battered Caterpillar Tractor hat. This was the favorite hat of Father-In-Law's Brother, who had died ten years before him. I could see the bill of the cap plainly, very distinctive because of the way in which it was worn out. His brother was one of the kindest, gentlest men I have ever known.
So--I saw cherry wood that could be made into the same sort of woodcuts, but it was not carved, or not yet carved. My meditations on this seem to indicate that I have work prepared and set before me. This is possibly to do with dying people, or it could be symbolic of other works in Essene Healing.
Temple technology update
Date: 2023-04-10 08:00 am (UTC)I'm the guy who has been researching the radio physics of the temple technology. I've built the model and it's ready to run, however, as seems to be usual with this line of inquiry, I realised the issues with modelling based on known physics - its exactly that, known physics. So I ran down another line of inquiry and I may have stumbled on a gold mine.
It seems that there's another name for the od, the ether, orgone, and astral light. There was a branch of nearly forgotten Egyptian radionics, or radiesthenia, which got revived after WWI by French and German scientists. They studied the energy to much the same degree as Reich, calling it negative green (based on the color spectrum), however, this branch of radionics has developed relatively sophisticated pendulums, which are actually radio antennae tuned to wave refraction angles, to literally measure the quality of the energy.
This apparently was one of the traditions taught in the Egyptian mysteries. One of the French scientists experimenting with this, Leon Chaumery, was found dead in his lab experimenting with this energy. He had mummified himself...
Basically, the temple technology is not just known radio physics. It's also a receiver of some sort of fractal or shape wave, based on its geometrical proportions. The resonance is with an energy source that is non magnetic, and non electric, although it can mix with electromagnetism, it's above that.
It's far too synchronous given your posts last week on the shift from quality to quantity as part of disenchantment, and coming just hours after you delivered me an attunement.
There's a lot more to this as well, including a potential link to the grail tradition, but this paper of mine is now looking like a small book!
Re: Post on Narcissism and MOE Tree of Life Visualizations
Date: 2023-04-10 09:15 am (UTC)Impactation and sublimation
Date: 2023-04-10 09:31 am (UTC)As I was reading again the chapter on the law of impactation, more specifically your blog entry which is more complete than my CosDoc edition, it came to me that a good way to be sure that I understood it was to put it in practice.
So here I try to connect two concepts of different planes: the fear of failure, from the etheric plane, and a blizzard, from the material plane. Both planes are close enough. And to be honest, fear of failure is a big spine in my skin.
So what have these things in common? They both obscure vision, dumb and paralize. They encourage seeking cover and ducking. They make me feel bad and make me conscious of my impotency.
How are they different? I don't have agency on a blizzard, but I could in theory take rein of my fear, one is objective the other is subjective. A blizzard is white color, while fear is usually associated with black color. A blizzard wets, while the fear only does so if I lose control of the sphincter, which was never the case. A blizzard pushes in the direction of the wind, while the fear I experience makes me still.
It is more alike to a freezing snowfall which has little wind, now that I think of it.
So, by linking these two concepts, the fear of failure impacts its qualities on the snowfall, so now, every time I feel that feeling it will bring the image of the snowfall. The qualities of the snowfall in turn sublimate, so whenever I see or think about a snowfall, it will remind me of my fears.
Next, the tricky part. Once the symbol is formed, the attributes that do not fit will be attached to the symbol anyways. It means that for me, fear of failure will be of white color, it will make me think of melting snowflakes on my skin, even though I know they are not related. These attributes degrade, they still exist but become out of context. On the other extreme, the ability to overcome fear disintegrates from the symbol, since I cannot change the effects of a real snowfall.
In other words, should I use that symbol (or rather, limit myself to that only symbol), I risk losing agency over my fears.