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 via slightly less evasive routes. The last two honorees, Constant Chevillon and Robert Ambelain, both received part of their many lineages from this week's honoree, Jean Bricaud. Bricaud was a student of Papus and a leading figure in the French Martinist movement, as well as a major figure in the French Gnostic church of the time. He became head of the Martinist Order on Papus' death in 1916, and played a significant role in many other alternative spiritual scenes of the time. He died in 1934.

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Dear JMG and other friends here,

I hope you are all healthy and that you had a good weekend!

Thanks for this space!

1. Based on what principles was the association between the divine names in Hebrew and the sephirot made? I guess it wasn't a random association.
2. Likewise the Archangels and angels.
3. And why exactly the use of Psalms to invoke the Divine Names when these names are present in other parts of the Bible such as Genesis and Exodus.
4. Would just visualization, meditation and repetition of the names bring consistent results? (this question came to me while typing the question...)

Thank you very much!

1-3) Nobody knows. Seriously, nobody knows. The people who created the Cabala didn't leave an account of why they made the choices they did -- if in fact they made the choices, and didn't simply receive the names and other correspondences in visionary states from angels or the spirits of dead tzaddikim.

4) You'd need to experiment and find out!

Do you recommend any good literature or even a website that addresses this topic? There is a lot of literature on angels and planets, and very little on Divine Names.

Um, what part of "nobody knows" don't you understand?

Do you have any idea why "Nobody knows" seems to be impossible for some people to grasp? It seems like it should be a simple idea...

We live in an age of entitlement. A great many people can't handle the idea that they really can't have something they want.

"A lot of literature" could mean "a lot of literature making reasonable and surprisingly plausible speculation, it's just that it's speculation that involved connections only scholars would have been aware of enough things to be able to draw", and they might have been asking if there was anything analogous in relation to divine names. In that context, maybe they thought "nobody knows" means "nobody knows anything like primary evidence or anything particularly dispositive", rather than "nobody knows anything and it's hopeless even for well-informed scholars to make any useful speculations that a novice couldn't also".

Communication is in some respects like software engineering. What you thought you meant isn't necessarily what the process on the other end could entirely reasonably interpret you as having meant. Sometimes debugging is necessary.

Maybe so, but it remains the case that nobody knows.

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