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)]

Hello JMG and everybody,
I just had an interesting experience that might be metaphysical and I would appreciate your comments. I drove my family to the airport and returned to an empty house. I was sitting quietly when I heard a thud. I immediately suspected the cat and ran to look for her only to find her sitting quietly and looking scared. I looked around and realized that a 12-month wall calender had fallen on the floor. I have lived in this house for more than 20 years and always had a wall calendar on that particular wall. I checked the nail and the wall - everything looked fine. I put the calendar back making sure that everything was right. 10 minutes later it fell again. This time the cat was in front of my eyes and not even moving. I put it back again and went to a dance party. Just came back - the calendar is mercifully on the wall.
What could it be? What could it mean?
Kirsten

[ecosophia]

Any number of things can cause that, some physical, some metaphysical. Have you considered using divination to try to figure out what was behind it?

[(Anonymous)]

I've done my regular divination that morning and got The Cube, The Hexagram R, and Discontinuous Proportion R. In my mind the falling calendar at the end of the day corresponded to Discontinuous Proportion R. When the calendar fell twice in an absolutely quite house I felt jarred, but then I thought about Discontinuous Proportion R and interpreted it as, "Keep calm and carry on. You feel that this event is affecting you, but it's not". Would you agree?
Kirsten

[ecosophia]

That seems about right.