ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's getting toward 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. Two weeks ago I started on the OBOD end of my lineage with past Chosen Chief Philip Carr-Gomm. During the time of his teacher, last week's honoree Ross Nichols, the remarkable Vera Chapman, shown here, was the Pendragon of the order. Chapman was one of the first women admitted into Oxford University -- the two big British universities kept women out until well into the 20th century -- and in her pre-Druid days was an influential member of the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, the most interesting offshoot of the Woodcraft back-to-nature movement, which we'll talk about a little more next week. (That's the Kibbo Kift seal below on the right.) Later still, during her Druidical years, she also helped found the Tolkien Society and was an influential figure in Tolkien fandom until her death.

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Good Evening,

A very happy Sunday/Monday to everyone, and may your Spring/early Summer be treating you well.

To Share: And now, a second post on working through the big thoughts in Spengler's The Decline of the West: https://jpowellrussell.com/#understanding_spengler_s_decline_of_the_west_bit_2_culture_as_organism

To Ask: I've been reading (though not meditating my way through, so doing it wrong) The Occult Philosophy Workbook, and a question has stuck with me from the section describing the afterlife. You talk about how the time between this life and the next will be spent mostly on the bit of the Astral plane that you spent this life focusing on the most. At the top of the Astral plane is the realm of creativity, and at the bottom is bodily/animal passions. So, my question is "what of those who exercise their creativity on behalf of bodily passions?" As in, those who write erotica or draw pornographic comics, or those who come up with wildly creative meals - not folks who do "paint-by-numbers" formulaic stuff, but exercising actual creativity on behalf of "lower" passions.

As always, thanks very much to JMG and everyone else here for all that you do.

To any who will have them, I put forth my blessings and best wishes,
Jeff

Good. You've noticed one of the challenges to thought woven into the text. When you meditate your way through the book, you'll figure it out!

This does suggest certain notorious artists will need to commute... :)

Last October I felt an incredible need to write an erotic novella. It was 30,000 words. Part of the reason why I took the time was because Geomancy gave me the Judgement of Fortuna Major. It was a deeply personal story. I had never written one before.

Well, I finished it and posted in on Literotica. It got good reviews because I've written vanilla fiction for over ten years. But there was never a Fortuna Major moment and a month later I took it down. Perhaps the Fortuna Major was the integration of a shadow side of my psyche because I have absolutely no desire to write another erotic story.

Just maybe the creative mind working on animal passions is a way to work around doing it in real life?

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