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. 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. Both of the last two honorees, and most of the other Martinist lineages in existence, were also taught and influenced by this man, Robert Ambelain, a prolific writer and occult scholar whose work extended from astrology and Freemasonry to Druidry and Martinism. Ambelain was born in 1907; he became an astrologer in the 1920s, proceeded to become a major figure in the Martinist scene and a bishop in one of the French Gnostic churches, played a central role in reviving several defunct occult orders, published 42 books, and earned the Croix de Guerre for his service to France during the Second World War. He died in 1997.

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Good Afternoon JMG, and the commentariat,

Thank you for this space.

For those who celebrate, I hope you had a wonderful and enlightening Summer Solstice.

I have question about the OPW Summer Solstice chapter. Paragraph 7 is really about the visualization used during meditation throughout the week. I used the 7th day as a time to review and expand on other topics of the week. I'm mostly certain that was ok to do, but I wanted to double check that I didn't miss something in para 7 I should have meditated on specifically. I meditated some on the visualization as part of the other six meditations. I suppose when it comes to topics for meditation, most anything is fair game.

I have really enjoyed initially reading through all of OPW, and this was the first time I have used it as intended. It provided much to meditate on and I realized very quickly that I had some research to do. I am still working through the SGO meditations and used this to help celebrate the season. I am looking forward to when I have "completed" WGS & SGO and can move to this. I have learned a great deal through the awareness exercise and affirmation provided this week as well.

Also, I have really enjoyed "The Witch of Criswell". I have read it a couple of times and am looking forward to the next in the series. (No rush! I know you always have a number of projects in the fire)

Regards,
Bert

1) That's a perfectly acceptable way to do that. Glad to hear that you're doing the work.

2) I'm delighted to hear this! The second volume, The Book of Haatan, is already at the publisher and should be out in the fall, and the third, The Carnelian Moon, is a little over half finished.

1) Thank you for your reply. That makes me feel better about it. I'm glad to be able to finally stick with something. Nothing wrong with what I had tried before, just didn't feel ready for some of it and this is "comfortable" enough for me at this point in my occult study. I hope to have time enough to go back and start again with some of the other orders when I am ready. So much to learn, so little time.

2)I will keep an eye out once they are up to pre-order. Looking forward to reading them!

Regards,
Bert

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