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, Dr. Gérard Encausse, who wrote about magic under the pen name Papus, didn't act alone in reviving the Martinist tradition and founding the Martinist Order; he had the capable assistance of this man, Augustin Chaboseau. Papus and Chaboseau were medical students together, and were startled to discover that each of them had received the Martinist initiation by way of two different lineages. They each initiated the other, and thereafter worked together to preserve and transmit the Martinist tradition. Chaboseau's wife Louise was famous in her own right as a leading French feminist, and one of the first female pharmacists in France.

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Regarding Essene exorcism and associated blowback:

We’re not supposed to talk about our works but in this case things seem to have gone off the rails and hopefully my experience can help others avoid unnecessary mistakes. The ritual was going smooth right up until the end where I invoked the person’s gods to protect them. At that moment there was an electrical explosion outside and the power flashed off and back on. I took it as a sign of success, but the next day I had zero energy. Two days later I was battling one of the worst viruses that I can remember and am still not out of the woods yet.

My competing hypotheses on what went wrong:

1. Didn’t build up enough energy with the breathing technique and ended up draining my own battery.

2. Weightlifter syndrome: stacked on too many plates that I wasn’t ready for.

3. Accidentally invoked the person’s gods when I should have done angels. (Maybe they conflicted with my healer god?)

4. Raspberry Jam: Since childhood I’ve also been dealing with a demonic attachment. I’ve learned to make it go sit in a corner and sulk, but is it possible that mine got removed as well?

5. I have an addiction. It’s a small one but maybe I wasn’t ethically pure enough for the procedure.

6. The other entity was simply too powerful from their ritual work and I got sucker punched, but I haven’t yet been able to verify if host benefitted from the ritual because we are out of contact.

7. I drank a beer after, probably should have just gone to bed but I was pretty excited.

8. This possibility just came to mind and is by far takes the cringe cake, but when I saw him and the other object next to him (a large blue sphere) I thought “okay that must be the entity” but something about his form didn’t look right. He appeared an ashy dark brown and had his shoulders hunched over and eyes closed like he was exhausted and taking a standing nap. Could it be that the blue sphere was actually his soul that got pushed out by the vax, and I short circuited the healing ceremony by attempting to remove something I wasn’t supposed to?

Any insight you have that would help me make sense of the matter is greatly appreciated.

[ecosophia]

Sounds to me as though you tried something you weren't yet really strong enough to handle, and suffered the metaphysical equivalent of a pulled muscle. Get plenty of rest and keep doing the standard Essene healing practices on yourself, and you should be fine.

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for putting my mind at ease.

I had the SG oracle shouting at me to "Send it!" even though I had my doubts, so apparently it's something that needed to be done and nobody else was available. Maybe this lesson was also required in order for me to take things more seriously.

[(Anonymous)]

Doing powerful magic requires rest afterwards just like anything else. It can literally wear you out, especially when dealing with levels of power you may not be accustomed to.

Power substances can sometimes help, like eating hood dark chocolate.

Justin / Aquamarine Fasting Puppy

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks Justin. I'll go find some chocolate! So far I've limited my magical interests to philosophy, self improvement, and decoding the otherwise inexplicable. Other than healing I never had a reason to push it farther until now. Apparently something important hinges on this person's choices.

[(Anonymous)]

While I still have you on the horn...

My cell salt replacements are supposed to arrive today and I'm restarting the old experiment which gave me tremendous benefit. Is there also a protocol for someone who magically overexerted? Most of the books seem to be focused on everyday stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Was that question too close to the edge? I’d be satisfied with being pointed in a general direction. Thanks

[ecosophia]

No, I just misplaced it. No, there's no specific protocol; look up your symptoms in a cell salt book and treat those.