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 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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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

The Witch of Criswell

[(Anonymous)]

Dear JMG,

After reading The Witch of Criswell, and hearing you say all the magic there is real, I have been wondering something. I had worn a silver protective necklace since I was a child. In 2020 around the time a witchy woman started hanging out with me the necklace kept coming undone and falling off my neck. Eventually I gave up trying to wear it.

Shortly after that all of a sudden I became obsessed thinking about her, and about a week later out of the blue she said she wanted to be in a relationship with me. It was an emotional roller coaster. We broke up but I still couldn’t stop thinking about her every second that I wasn’t focused on something else. One night after attacking myself in my sleep, (I put it down to ptsd from over a decade in a warzone,) I decided to try your sphere of protection spell to see if that would help. I did it at the end of each day, and I did stop attacking myself at night. However, on your recommendation I decided to switch to doing it first thing. Shockingly I found that the moment I finished the SOP in the morning time, I stopped thinking about the woman, and haven't had a longing for her since.

I never told her about the SOP, or my obsessive thoughts, or the ceasing of them, but since that day I have never heard from her again, and in the 10 months since that day she has never posted anything on any social media, and other people who had known us have also not heard from her. After reading your book I have been wondering if I might have been the target of some kind of spell, and that the silver necklace falling off just before the obsession started and her disappearance after the switch to the morning SOP were not coincidental. Is this possible? Do spells like this exist? And if so am I protected now with the morning SOP? Or should I take other measures if I find myself in a similar situation down the road?

Thank you

Re: The Witch of Criswell

[ecosophia]

Not only is it possible, it happens quite often, and you should be fine so long as you continue practicing the SoP. One of the things I hope to accomplish with the new series of novels is to give people who don't know enough about magic some idea of what's out there.

Re: The Witch of Criswell

[(Anonymous)]

Another fan of The Witch of Criswell here. I've taken to grinding a little pepper into my closed-toe shoes once a month because why not? It's a simple enough thing to do, and with the world as amped up as it is, protection on all levels seems a good idea. Would there be any benefit to wearing a silver dime pendant/bracelet as well? If yes, what sorts of effects does it block/neutralize? Or what positive effects does it attract?

This series is shaping up to become the most entertaining and enjoyable how-to collection ever!

Thanks as always,
OtterGirl

Re: The Witch of Criswell

[ecosophia]

Yes, wearing silver is a traditional protection against some kinds of hostile magic. It's the most conductive of all metals to etheric energy, so it tends to dispel noxious etheric patterns.

Re: The Witch of Criswell

[(Anonymous)]

Does it matter what kind of silver I am wearing (e.g. purify), or how (medallion, coin, etc.)?

Re: The Witch of Criswell

[ecosophia]

Nope. If you belong to a religion that does silver medallions, it can be helpful for a priest or other holy person to bless it, but other than that, silver is silver.