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

[(Anonymous)]

There's a dust-up going on over in Carnac France over the removal of some large stones thought to be menhirs to make way for a DIY hardware store. To make it clear, these stones were not part of the main Carnac site which I believe is under UNESCO protection. It's not even clear if these stones were really associated with the Carnac monuments themselves. But never mind. The mayor who gave the OK for the demolition is catching all sorts of flack including death threats and politicians are trying to make hay out of it all.

I guess my question is how long does a sacred site stay sacred if it's no longer in use and nobody remembers what was done there? Is there karmic blowback if you know the site may have been important at one time but go ahead and build your hardware store anyway? Or is the controversy in France all just a tempest in an etheric teapot, especially given that nobody knows if the removed stones were really part of the Carnac complex or just something that somebody erected at a later time for non-sacred purposes?

JLfromNH/Fuchsia Choleric Armadillo

[ecosophia]

It really depends on what kind of sacred site, how it was consecrated, and what kind of work was done there. If it was a genuine megalithic site, that stays sacred until the stones are destroyed or removed, and the blowback isn't just a matter of karma -- sudden violent thunderstorms tend to spring up when a genuine megalithic site is tampered with.

[(Anonymous)]

In other words, the blowback is literal then. No mention of bad weather suddenly appearing in the news story unless you want to count the professed outrage as a doo-doo storm. But it's sad that someone thinks a chain store is more desirable than a landscape sprinkled with mysterious ancient stone structures, sacred or not.

JLfromNH/Fuchsia Choleric Armadillo

Carnac and earthquake

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting a very rare earthquake in the general vicinity https://www.google.com/search?q=earthquake+in+france&rlz=1C1GCEA_enNZ973NZ973&oq=earthquake+in+france&aqs=chrome.0.69i59j0i3j0i512l8.5006j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&safe=active&ssui=on

Re: Carnac and earthquake

[ecosophia]

Hmm! Interesting.