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

Re: Wealth of Nature Review and "Listening to the Wisdom of Your Body" Question

[hearthculture]

Greetings Jeff,
I'm catching up on your writings from the last month and enjoying reading the story of your journey. Thank you for sharing.

For your scrying, I'm pondering the difference between "listening to the wisdom of your body" versus "learning to listen..."
For many modern males, part of the right of passage is in some way showing mastery over the body, particularly in the military or sports where not eating of pushing past your limits is celebrated. Perhaps this is pointing to something more complex than just listening to your body more, maybe this is pointing to a whole other branch of your occult work - "learning to listen to the body" - which may involve more than just eating when you are hungry and honoring resting rather than celebrating pushing through, though these things are likely part of the wisdom of your body. I can imagine a years worth of observations and meditations just in listening to my body through daily cycles, moon cycles, and the solar cycle of seasonal changes.

I may also be extrapolating and assuming too much; and I am realizing that your advice is pertinent to me, and this train of thought is one I should explore further.

Hope you are finding ways to stay cool and hydrated.
May you and yours be blessed.

[jprussell]

Thanks for the kind words, I'm glad you're enjoying them!

Thank you also for your thoughts on "learning to listen" - it certainly sounds reasonable and worth exploring. I think you're right that at least part of it might be learning a different relationship with my body than was appropriate at a different time in my life.

Lastly, likewise on the hydration and blessings!

Cheers,
Jeff

Re: Wealth of Nature Review and "Listening to the Wisdom of Your Body" Question

[illyria2001]

For many modern males, part of the right of passage is in some way showing mastery over the body, particularly in the military or sports

For women it's mastering our bodies by starving ourselves or over-exercising. Both show a profound disrespect and sometimes even hatred of the physical world and our bodies that are part of it.