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

Dolmen arch questions

[autpaxautbellum]

I’m currently working my way through the Dolmen Arch and would appreciate your thoughts on a couple questions.

(1) considering the powers associated with the various cantrefs, I have been wondering where emotion fits in. My best guess currently is that it is associated with water / memory (idea being that emotions are derived on the basis of memory and experiences) … is this accurate or is there a better model for how emotion ties into the system?

(2) I have been working on the color breathing and cantref visualizations for some time now, but the quality of the colors and shapes remains inconsistent . Sometimes they are quite crisp, but other days much less so. Some colors I seem to have an easier time visualizing. Should I delay completion of the second grade until this is sorted out? Or move forward and keep working on it?

(3) not strictly Magic Monday material.. I just finished reading Fires of Shalsha which I quite enjoyed, but it appears the sequel Journey Star is out of print (far as I can tell). Do you expect this title will become re-available in the near future?

Thank you!

Re: Dolmen arch questions

[ecosophia]

1) It depends on the emotion. Each emotion has its own cantref. For example, anger is an emotion of Ufel, and reverence is an emotion of Nef.

2) Go ahead and move forward. You don't need to achieve perfection before proceeding, you just need to make a good start.

3) Glad to hear it! Journey Star will be back in print next year. All but one of my novels is moving to a new publisher (the one exception is already there), so there will unfortunately be some delays.

Re: Dolmen arch questions

[(Anonymous)]

3) Sphinx/Aeon?

Re: Dolmen arch questions

[ecosophia]

That's the one.