ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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Mr. Greer, I appreciate your openness and generosity with your teaching on so many levels. I have been following your Occult Philosophy workbook since January 1 and have also been working deeply with Aidan Wachter's techniques (mostly from Weaving Fate) since June of last year. I have observed changes in myself and in the world from this work. And it has shifted my worldview immensely.

Up until this point, I have been practicing alone and that has been fine. But I am starting to feel the need to congregate and learn from others as well, and I have no idea where to start. I just moved to Southeastern Massachusetts and given that it may be close to your neck of the woods, I think, would you have suggestions for groups, bookshops, people, or online forums that serve this area from which I might find opportunity for in-person discussion and workings?

Many thanks again for all that you do.

Sincerely, RS

I haven't encountered much in the occult scene locally, and what there was appears to have folded up with the Covid shutdowns and not started up again. I really, truly don't want to have to take on the work of starting something up -- been there, done that, used the tee shirt to mop up the mess -- but yeah, it would be helpful to have something local for occultists.

I've been living in Rhode Island since 1967, and I began actively keeping up with the occult scene here around 1992 -- mostly out of curiosity, as I am something of a hermit and dislike being part of any group whatever. I never found much here of what you say you're looking for. There have been quite a few small Wiccan covens and modest occult stores (with associated small discussion and/or practice groups), but most of them have come and gone over the decades. The only exception that I know of is a firmly non-Wiccan organization of Traditionalist Witches (New England Covens of Traditionalist Witches), which has been active here in RI since the 1960s, and which has trustworthy pre-Gardnerian history in Massachusetts as far back as the 1920s or 1930s.

Thank you both. I think mostly I am trying to figure out ways to simply have conversations with other practitioners. And I believe that Magic Mondays may be the best way to do so. I appreciate your time and perspective.

all best,

RS

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