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

[(Anonymous)]

I have a question about polytheism and the Supreme Being. Some polytheisms take one into account, such as "The Great Spirit" - though on Native America Calling, most such invocations went to "The Creator." In others, like the Heathen traditions, you call on the god you have a relationship with, like Thor.
I've been working with the days of the week, which means the Sun, Moon, and classical planets, and Minerva, and really don't see a way to fit the Supreme Being in there unless you turn to sun-worship, which I'm really not comfortable with. My background is Wiccan, which calls on the Goddess of Nature in 3 aspects: Earth, Moon-and-tides, and Stars. I feel like I'm trying to deal a hand of cards from several different decks at this point.
I - have been for decades - in touch with an entity I call Goddess, who seems to act almost like some sort of a trainer or coach and has never steered me wrong, but I think sometimes gets fed up with me (though it was Saturn who dished out the latest scolding) but can be very supportive too.

Okay - tossing the mess on your desk for the same reason I need to call the IT tech when the computer is acting up.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[ecosophia]

Some polytheisms have a Supreme Being, others do not, and then there are still others in the middle -- for example, the ones that have one deity who is more powerful than the others but not that much more powerful, or the ones that have a supreme deity who made the world and then went off to do something else, leaving it to less powerful gods. Since no human being can know the truth about gods -- remember that our brains are basically lumps of greasy jello eight inches long, and there's a real limit to what such a thing can comprehend! -- the best approach is to work with your tradition and not worry about what other traditions do or don't claim.

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you!!