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

Comments

Re: Divination working

[ecosophia]

Well, the first thing that comes to mind is TSW -- you know, "this (ahem) stuff works." I'm glad it worked so positively for you.

Second, remember that the universe is not obliged to obey the limits of our theories...

Re: Divination working

[abrahamjpalma]

Thanks, maybe this is my first contact with the weird, but I would say that (TSW) this stuff have been working for me since the beginning. I have now so much more agency in my life!
I was able to lose weight and I am back to normal. I reduced the consume of sugar and alcohol by large. I survived a marital crisis. I am usually a calm man, but now I enjoy peace of mind. I don't suffer headaches anymore (sometimes I feel the dumbness, but not the pain), and I don't take painkillers anymore. Instead I let the pain guide the healing. My blood test is of a man five years younger.
It looks like superpowers, as Lévi said. It's nothing else than healthy habits and a little bit of philosophy, but without the practices, I don't know if I would have been able to make it.

And now I am arriving at the woo woo stuff. No law of nature has been broken. Yet this is so hard to explain with a reductionistic approach that I have but to accept that the universe is more complex and uncertain that I thought. I will call this the dragonfly effect: changing oneself worldview after witnessing the same dragonfly that was foreseen in a divination the day before.

If we cannot even be sure whether time moves forward, we really are floating adrift. Actually, Physics can't explain why we experience time in only one direction, while most physics laws are valid in any time direction.

Well, the divination of this morning led me to make a seal: I was required to use my three most precious gems and draw something with a fountain pen while my naked feet were in contact with the ground. The precious gems I think it meant what I value most in myself and in my life, so I linked both. I don't understand why the naked feet, but after the dragonfly I admit I don't know half the stuff and just followed the guide.
I feel this seal is a powerful sigil linking the best of my personality to my family.

We celebrated cooking carob cookies!

Re: Divination working

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, the direction of time doesn't have to be a fact about the laws of physics exactly, it could just be a fact about the broad structure surrounding this particular region of space, time, and possibility. Mountains are pointy and basins are broad and shallow, even if the laws of material transport by erosion are "symmetric" in the absence of gravity.