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

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[(Anonymous)]

Greetings JMG and folks,

JMG, a few questions for you and our company today:

1) So, despite not being christian, I've had St. Michael pop up a few times in my experience over the last year and possibly participate in a major thing that got unblocked for me.

I've had a frequently bubbling thought lately, that I should have a subtle ring of St Michael made and wear it, but I don't know how to do this, and how I would actually consecrate it properly / receive his blessings. Any advice?

2) Last week you said anger is a secondary emotion to fear/guilt/shame. Is there a good body of work around the theory of emotions worth reading to understand this better? (Would you say its the stuff from Octagon society / OSA or something more traditionally psychotherapeutic?)

3) Is consciousness a gradation of the will (there are more substances/extensions to the will beyond the phenomenal world)? one that is accessible to us directly via the astral vs the will that is accessible to us indirectly?

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[ecosophia]

1) Until you know how this is done, don't try to do it. Focus on your magical training; as you learn more about magic, you'll learn ways to do such things. "One step at a time" really is good advice in magic.

2) I've only ever encountered that idea in the OSA system; it may be elsewhere, but I don't happen to have seen it. It's one of the things that made me take the OSA material very seriously, as it helped me get past a lot of pointless and unproductive anger and then deal with a lot of miserable childhood experience that underlay that.

3) That's certainly what Schopenhauer thought. I'm inclined to believe that he was right.

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[(Anonymous)]

On 1, is there a way / is it advisable to get such a ring from someone else?

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[ecosophia]

If you happen to know a capable mage who makes rings, yes, you could do that. Or you could get a plain, nonmagical ring with a St. Michael medal on it, and begin regularly praying to St. Michael, asking him to bless the ring.

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[(Anonymous)]

Great thank you, I might start with the latter.

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[brenainn]

There's another possibility: start wearing the Scapular of St. Michael the Archangel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapular_of_Saint_Michael_the_Archangel

You won't need a Roman Catholic priest to do the enrollment. A priest in the independent sacramental movement would be just as capable of enrolling you. I've been enrolled in other scapulars by independent traditionalist priests, and I did not notice any difference in the effectiveness.

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[(Anonymous)]

Ah, very nice, though I probably need something more subtle to wear professionally.

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[brenainn]

I wear all my scapulars, including this one, underneath my shirt. That's a pretty common practice amongst the laity.