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

The Hebrew Alphabet - Morse Code Magic?

[inykane]

So, due to your consistent advice, I am sticking to "Learning Ritual Magic" and resolutely avoiding the temptation to start delving into additional practices. I could elaborate on a number of positive surprises that this study has gifted me with, but that I am sure is just how it works. AND having browsed through the book several times, you would not know that by merely reading the book. Little by little, the practice is changing my life for the better.

As for the questions:

1) The course utilizes the Hebrew alphabet. I find it a little difficult to distinguish some of them (Beith & Kaph for example), so I went on to other sources in order to learn the alphabet. It appears that the alphabet used in the book is some sort of elaborate and pretty version of it, which differs somewhat from both the modern cursive hebrew and the printed version. When memorizing the correspondences, I would like to draw tham, but it is a little tough when I am not sure how to do it.

Can I use the modern printed version? Or does it matter? If not, where could I find the correct way?

2) Do you know of a magical system that would use the morse code as magical symbols? I do not mean merely the static visual representations, but the rhythm itself. Somewhere down the road, once I get my own foundation well established, I would like to work with such a system. I imagine many applications with wind instruments, body movements (hand gestures, dancing) and chanting. It would also be easy to mark almost anything with the visual representation. Or simply by arranging items in a row based on their size etc.

Could this be done? Do you see any problems that might arise?

Re: The Hebrew Alphabet - Morse Code Magic?

[(Anonymous)]

Not JMG

1) Have you seen worksheets online for writing Hebrew letters? It can be done more simply than most of the fonts used in books. Try something like this: https://hebrew4christians.com/Grammar/Unit_One/Alphabet_Practice.pdf

Re: The Hebrew Alphabet - Morse Code Magic?

[ecosophia]

1) The Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), the magical order founded by Paul Foster Case, sells a very good workbook on learning to write the Hebrew letters in the traditional style; yes, that differs from modern cursive or printed styles. You can order a copy here:

https://storebota.org/products/the-hebrew-letters-workbook

2) I don't know of such a system but it sounds like an intriguing idea. In the immortal words of Dr. Frankenstein, "It...could...work!"