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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Good morning JMG, and everybody else!

No replies up yet, and you‘re in a creative mood - I hope that bears well both for the amount of sleep you got, and for your next book(s)… ;-)

Thanks, as always, for having us over today and patiently answering all the questions. I really learn a lot each week, and treasure this space very much.

A few questions today, if I may (however many you feel ready to answer):

About the red bags and jars with salt/nail:

1. Is it advisable to wear them/put them up all the time, or would this be too much? Or, in other words, does the „occult immune system“ need some training, and constant „disinfection“ isn‘t healthy either?

2. I presume there is some (healthy) energy exchange e.g. between close couples or between parents and their children. Does a red bag suppress or prevent this? Could wearing such a bag lead to issues in that regard?

3. Since a lot of people don‘t even seem to be aware that they are drawing energy from other people: How does one notice? Does this directly correlate with e.g. drawing attention or time, being needy, being dependent, etc? Or are there other, less obvious, cues to look out for in oneself?

And about the GSF Initiation and lodge:

4. In the initiation, there is a composition of place, but no un-composition. One second, you‘re in the grove, and the next second, you‘re back in the lodge, just like that. Does that have a specific reason, or did it just happen to end up that way?

5. Why is the lodge closing done in the same order as the opening, and not in reverse? I.e. why doesn‘t one „unroll“ things in reverse order?

Thanks, and if you and your wife would have them, my blessings to both of you - may you have a healthy, enjoyable and productive week!

Milkyway

1) I don't recommend wearing them all the time, because...

2) A red bag amulet would interfere with this.

3) It takes practice, but one useful hint is to watch what happens when you're alone for a while. If you start feeling depleted, and perk up suddenly when you get near another person, you may be parasitizing them.

4) So that the composition flows into the astral structure of the lodge itself.

5) What a fine theme for meditation! ;-)

3. This is why extroverts must be stopped. :)

Thanks for your replies.

2) The jars in the house/flat corners would be less problematic then, I presume, at least as long as no people significantly close live elsewhere?

5) Harumph. Could‘ve seen this coming, of course. (I‘ll be back if it still doesn‘t make sense, though!! ;-) ).

Milkyway

2) They should be fine.

Not the OP:

3) If you have the opposite problem, where being around other people consistently depletes you, does this mean you're... leaking energy? If so are there ways to counteract this?

Yes, but it's not easy. You need to learn how to seal your aura. Regular practice of a basic protective ritual such as the Sphere of Protection will teach you that, and so will most other courses of magical training, but it takes time and attention. In the meantime, make sure you have plenty of solitude to recover!

Yet a third person chiming in here, I suspect this might be my problem. What causes something like this to happen? Is it something a person is born with, or is it caused by trauma/abuse?

It can be either brought through from a previous life or caused by events in this one. As with so many things, it's not something that has only one possible cause!

Hello and thank you so much for these weekly Q&A. You mention a red bag amulet...would you be so kind as to post the link to that? I am interested and I think it might be very helpful. My apologies if this is a question you get constantly. I'm having a little trouble navigating the site.
VM

It's in the Magic Monday FAQ, which is linked in the post at the top of this comment thread.

1. Is it advisable to wear them/put them up all the time, or would this be too much? Or, in other words, does the „occult immune system“ need some training, and constant „disinfection“ isn‘t healthy either?

Working out the same question! I'm currently wearing it only when I expect negative interactions. There's a lot of that currently, so I'm wearing it a lot. So far it seems to have a beneficial effect.

Curious to learn what your experience will bring!

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