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

Re: Asatru Folk Assembly

[illyria2001]

Personally, I would recommend The Troth -- in addition to having a significant real world presence, their lore program and courses are excellent. Also, the AFA's Declaration of Purpose groups all white people together as if part of a single monoculture ("All native religions spring from the unique collective soul of a particular race."), not taking into account particular groups of people like Slavs and Celts whose cultures were not the same as the Germanic or Norse.

Re: Asatru Folk Assembly

[brenainn]

Thank you for the suggestion. I've looked over The Troth's website and I've encountered what, for me, are red flags. They have a DEI committee, and some of the position statements and official announcements on the "Latest News" page of their website leads me to think that the organization is probably on the "woke side" of things. I wouldn't be a good fit in such an organization.

On the subject of the AFA and a monocultural view of White people, that's a very fair point. An Englishman isn't a Frenchman, and neither are Polish. The cultures are distinct. But the situation in the United States is a bit different. I suppose we don't have much of a real culture to begin with. Different European peoples blended together, and a pan-European approach might be more tenable here. I'm not sure, though. I'll have to meditate about this aspect of the issue.

Re: Asatru Folk Assembly

[causticus]

I checked out The Troth a few years ago and they seemed to have gone all-in on the wokeness craze. From their web site, it seems readily apparent that they are totally intolerant of any political views that stray even an inch from their own, i.e. whatever the preferred woke/prog flavor of the month happens to be.

IIRC, this is the group Stephen Flowers (pen-name: Edred Thorsson) founded back in the early 90s. Not long after founding it, he quickly excommunicated from his own group because of his past associations with the Temple of Set (a rather edgy LHP initiatory organization); some of the membership base had a real aversion to anything connected to ceremonial magic and likely didn't want the group to get caught up in the Satanic Panic moral hysteria that was real big at the time. The woman who took over the group ended up leading it in a rather leftward direction and laid the groundwork for the sorry state it's in today.