Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's just past 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. Last week's honoree, Jean Bricaud, received the headship of the Martinist Order from this man, Henri-Charles Detre, who wrote under the pseudonym Teder. Detre was active in a great many occult circles in early twentieth century France; he was the head of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose+Croix (Cabalistic Order of the Rose+Cross), headed several esoteric Masonic rites, and was also the chief of the French branch of the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) back in its pre-Crowley days. He headed the Martinist Order for only two years, from the death of Papus in 1916 to his own death in 1918.

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

Comments

Re: The Hartlib Circle!

[ecosophia]

It was tolerably common for magical systems in the Renaissance to also have cryptographic dimensions; Trithemius's book Steganographia is both a handbook of ciphers and a guide to summoning spirits, and plenty of Cabalistic methods can be used for both purposes.

You might want to have a look at Thomas Rudd as a potential link between Dee and the Hartlib circle, for that matter.

Re: The Hartlib Circle!

[wizard_in_the_woods_1949]

JMG,

Thanks for the heads-up regarding Thomas Rudd, will check for any links!
The political intrigue in Europe at the time, and development of better intelligence methods is fascinating. I have visualized Dee and Kelly tramping
around (mostly Kelly blundering) many times. I'm aware of "steganographia", though it's been awhile since discussing it.

Thanks JMG

Re: The Hartlib Circle!

[ecosophia]

Rudd is worth following up on. He's the one figure in Dee's immediate aftermath who seems to have picked up the Enochian system and worked with it, setting in motion the sequence of creative developments that culminated in the Golden Dawn Enochian system.

Re: The Hartlib Circle!

[wizard_in_the_woods_1949]

JMG,

Accidentally deleted the initial post while attempting to clean it up, duh! ;^(
Guess there's a First time for everything?

Just wanted to say that Yes, I'm following up on Rudd indeed.

I've compiled a good bit of data on Enochian over the years from numerous sources since first being exposed to it around 1977, with the Third Edition of the G'.'D'.', the "Blue Brick" hard cover. The First Single Volume ever? Some of this is from talking directly with other magicians, and some from slow methodical plodding, with which admittedly the internet has been a major tool.

With all that said, the major influences upon my own perceptions have been of course direct exposure to it, and talking directly with others about theirs.
Additionally, some episodes from Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki & J.H. Brennen, which were not bad episodes, plus of course the more well known perceptions of Paul Foster Case, who has nothing good to say about working with it, influencing those traditionally descending from him, the BOTA, Fraternitas Lux Occulta, etc.
These are but a few highlights of research, there are other details that add or detract from (make more difficult) conceptualizing the whole system, for Me!

My perception is that "Barbarous Words of Power", "Sonics", from many different systems if Verbalized, Can produce some interesting effects, subject to a Myriad of other conditions at any given time. Pronouncing without verbalizing, or using the so-called "Great Voice", does not vibrate outwardly onto the dense physical, but still vibrates inwardly as expected, that's just My perception though.

As always, Thanks for Your advice, I value it Greatly!