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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Comments

Kabbalistic Cross

[gnosis555]

JMG,

Thank you for sharing all your erudition, study and wisdom. You are a great inspiration to me!

My question is in regards to the Kabbalistic Cross from the viewpoint of the traditional Golden Dawn.

The light that we bring down to our foreheads, is this

a) Ain Soph Aur

b) Keter

Or

c) Tiphereth

and which aspect of ourselves would this be (Higher Self/Tiphereth or Divine Self/Keter)?

I first thought this light related to Keter but I read someone mention it’s invoking your Higher Self which in GD is associated with Tiphereth. It makes sense though considering Keter is above the abyss and impersonal. (These terms are so easy to get jumbled up.)


Thank you for the clarification and I hope you have a great week.

Re: Kabbalistic Cross

[ecosophia]

It depends entirely on how high you can reach. To begin with, the student is entirely in Malkuth and is calling down the life force from Yesod. Once the student has accomplished the work of the Outer Order and embodies the four lowest sephiroth, the light descends from Tiphareth. The work of the Second Order makes it possible to begin calling down light across the Abyss from Kether. the Ain Soph Aur? That's where it all comes from ultimately, but if you can call that down into manifestation you are an Ipsissimus and don't need instruction from me!