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. 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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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Hello JMG and friends of Magic Monday,
I hope you are well and healthy!
Some random questions:

1. I have Mars in Taurus in the 12th house and I seem to have all the negatives aspects here. I tend to repress my own anger or irritation or have delayed responses to what brings me frustration. This pent-up anger, however, is often channeled against myself or the universe. How to work better on this aspect? How to let anger go or even not let it grow?

2. Imagination is the matter of the astral!? Can a good work of imagination (with a beginning, middle and end) lead to the fulfillment of the magician's will? Any recommendations for good books on the subject, please?

thanks you!!

Re: random questions

[ecosophia]

1) I very strongly recommend the Order of Spiritual Alchemy practices for this sort of thing. You have to deal with the childhood experiences that are at the root of your anger before you can let it go.

2) Imagination by itself won't make changes on the material plane, because the planes are discrete and not continuous -- if you do the whole working on the astral plane, it will stay there and not affect any other plane. That's why you need to include actions on the material plane in any work of practical magic, so the pattern you imagine can move down the planes into matter.

Re: random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Oh yeah. I began the studies of the Order of Spiritual Alchemy. I need to get back to them, by the way. They are very good!
My problems are with those circumstantial events that occur on a daily basis, I don't resolve or discuss and I'm corroding with hate for months. It is a considerable expenditure of energy. Any advice on how to resolve this spiritually?

Re: random questions

[ecosophia]

Your reaction to those circumstantial events shows that you haven't yet processed the roots of your anger in past experiences. Until you do that, no ritual, no meditation, nor any other practice will solve the difficulty, because anger is a secondary emotion -- it's almost always covering up shame, grief, or fear from childhood events. Until you deal with those, the same thing's going to keep on happening.

Re: random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks you, John!

Re: random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Sir,

Your reply about discrete planes is interesting. Question: In doing daily work in front of an altar or in a lodge, I would believe that one would ideally perform inner Astral work first; and then perform corresponding physical plane work next. Is that right?

And now that I think of it, spiritual plane work might be best to begin with as a foundation?

Best,

A Neophyte

Re: random questions

[ecosophia]

It really depends on the specific details of the working. In many rituals the work is interwoven -- at some points you do physical and astral work at the same time, at other points you do just physical work, or just astral work, or just spiritual work, and then it's back to some combination or other. Very often rituals begin and end on the material plane.

Re: random questions

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you, JMG,

Is it sometimes a pattern to go in sequence: material, astral, spiritual. Then back down and up again in sequence??

Re: random questions

[ecosophia]

I've seen that, but not often. It's usually more complex than that.