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: Magic Resistance Backfire

[(Anonymous)]

JMG,

A lot of the weirdness of the Trump Era here in Canada was the epic meltdowns that occurred in our comfortable classes as they started to realize the American government had stopped listening! to the Canadian comfortable classes. The notion that American domestic politics ought to factor in what our government and large companies have to say on everything, and what our public opinion says on almost everything, is so ingrained here that it took a while for anyone to notice it had stopped; and when it finally became clear that the Trump administration didn't care about offending Canada, that the Republicans were too busy conducting a civil war over Trump to listen, and the Democrats were too busy shrieking about Trump to worry about us, the meltdowns were epic.

Is it possible this disruption occurred because of the Magic Resistance, particularly since it was at least as active, if not more so, in Canada as it was in the US?

Re: Magic Resistance Backfire

[ecosophia]

I suppose so, but it seems more likely that it was simply the tantrum of a class that discovered it was a lot less important than it thought.

Re: Magic Resistance Backfire

[(Anonymous)]

Of course. I was more thinking of the fact that it looks like all the levers Canada had to muck about with American domestic politics all got stuck at the same time. The following tantrums were probably just people who suddenly realized they weren't that important throwing tantrums; but it seems strange to me that with the dozens of mechanisms at my nation's disposal, there'd be a sudden moment when they'd all stop working at once...

Re: Magic Resistance Backfire

[ecosophia]

I wonder whether the same thing happened in 1860...