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

Spiritual paths toward resilient communities

[(Anonymous)]

Hi JMG,

In the wake of the Canadian trucker protests and various other medical freedom movements, I got to thinking. A major obstacle for any such movement comes in the form of infiltrators, saboteurs and informants. It often seems that the organs of government dedicated to these functions are the most robust out of all of them. Accusations of "shill" and "agent" destroy many projects before they can even get out of the gate.

With that in mind, could there be any spiritual counters to the formidable resources dedicated to undermine such groups? Such as group practices that affirm the sincere shared purpose of the members and make the group inhospitable to anyone who joins with ulterior motives. Of course, such practices may have as a precondition some shared spiritual framework among the members, which would be difficult to apply to a movement as diverse as the Canadian truckers. It was moving to watch them assemble to sing "Oh Canada" but an agent provocateur can still probably sing well - there needs to be something more to it than that.


Can you comment on the ways in which you see honesty and loyalty manifesting in the higher planes compared to bad faith and deception? Would it be easiest to use a ritual which will simply fail in the presence of an insincere participant? Of course, in a large group such simple pass/fail testing is less efficient.

Thanks for any thoughts and for these weekly Q&As.

Re: Spiritual paths toward resilient communities

[ecosophia]

This is one of the many reasons why it's important, in any kind of magic, to focus entirely on bringing positive energy to what you want to build up, rather than directing negative energy toward what you want to tear down. People who are in a group under false pretenses, especially if they're agents provocateurs who are there to lure people into committing crimes, will usually find that positive focus intensely uncomfortable, and will either back away fast or loudly insist on trying to change the focus to negativity; in either case, they can be identified and excluded that way. Alternatively, they may be drawn into the groupmind and change their loyalties. Did you ever read G.K. Chesterton's novel The Man Who Was Thursday? It's the story of a policeman who was told to infiltrate an anarchist group, only to find out that every other member of the group was also a policeman and every one of them had become a convert to anarchism...