Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage.  That's rendered complex by the Martinist tradition that one does not name one's initiator, so we'll have to go back through less evasive routes. Last week's honoree, René Chambellant, became head of the Eglise Gnostique Universelle on the death of his teacher and consecrator, Constant Chevillon, whom I'm honoring this week. Martinist, Rosicrucian, Freemason, and Gnostic bishop, Chevillon was born in 1880, showed remarkable intellectual gifts in youth, but went to work in the banking industry while devoting his free time to occult and spiritual pursuits. He wrote seven books and many essays about Gnostic theology and practice, and his integrity and spiritual qualities won the respect not only of his fellow Gnostics but of Catholics and nonreligious people. In 1944, he and other leading citizens of Lyon were taken hostage by the Nazis in revenge for activities of the Resistance, and shot to death. He is considered a saint and martyr by most modern Gnostic churches; the day of his martyrdom, March 22, is his feast day.

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Comments

Re: Follow-up questions energy vampire

[ecosophia]

1) Yes, that sounds plausible.

2) Yes, very much so. I've done this, in fact.

3) It needs to be something sharp-pointed and made of iron to get the same effect. If that's not an option, you may need to look up other protective amulets -- my book on natural magic covers the ground, possibly in too much detail.

4) Yes, unfortunately.

Re: Follow-up questions energy vampire

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks, again, for your input and advice!

2a) Would one put the bag in the „middle“ (aka the „heart“) of the house? Or rather one bag in each of the four corners? And does it matter on which level they are put (basement, ground floor, as high up under the roof as possible, …)?

I would very much like to keep such obnoxious things out of our living space - but I certainly don‘t want to bother or disturb any beings which are living happily in our garden as good neighbours (or in the house, for that matter)…

2b) I take it that the same thing applies with regards to duration: I‘d check them from time to time and replace as necessary, right?

2c) Dimensions: Since the house is bigger than me, do the amulets (amount of salt and size of the nails) also have to be bigger?

3) Nah, not too much detail - just nine closely printed lines of potential ingredients for protective workings… ;-)

Seriously, though, I just asked in case there was some other „standard“ amulet for such occasions. No need to re-invent the wheel... But I love your natural magic book and shall be able to figure something out with its help. :-)

4) Ouch. ;-(

Thanks!

Re: Follow-up questions energy vampire

[ecosophia]

2) I'd put one in each corner; you can make them of any size you like, and yes, you should check them at intervals. You can certainly put them in jars if you prefer.

3) There isn't a lot of standardization in natural magic!

Re: Follow-up questions energy vampire

[(Anonymous)]

2) In the basement, as in a certain novel? Or rather on the living floor(s)?

Sorry for the flood of questions. This has really rattled me. A lot.

Thank you very, very much.

Re: Follow-up questions energy vampire

[ecosophia]

I'd put it on whatever floor is closest to the level of the street outside.