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

Golden Dawn & AMORC

[(Anonymous)]

Hello Mr. Greer,

A while back I asked about whether I could practice both the Golden Dawn (as described in Learning Ritual Magic, LRM) and Rosicrucianism (as described on AMORC's monographs) and you said that was acceptable so long as I keep them desperate. Several weeks later you told me that it would be OK for me to keep the Golden Dawn stuff in a holding pattern while I focused on AMORC's material.

I now want to ask you about the holding pattern for my Golden Dawn work.

For the last month or so, I have daily practiced the body relaxation exercise (lying on the ground, tensing and then relaxing muscles), followed by the Qabalistic Cross + the Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram + the Qabalistic Cross. (I've only finished the first 6 chapters, and I am only partly into the 7th chapter of LRM.) Is this acceptable as a holding patter? For how long can I do this? Should I re-incorporate the relaxation exercise that involved the solar plexus? Should I also re-incorporate the meditation exercises? Is there anything else that you recommend that I do?

Thank you!

Re: Golden Dawn & AMORC

[ecosophia]

You can certainly practice that for six months or so; after that you'll want to add in the Middle Pillar exercise. I don't happen to know what's taught in the current AMORC course, but if it doesn't have regular meditation, yes, the meditation exercises should be included, and you can add in anything else that feels suitable.

Re: Golden Dawn & AMORC

[(Anonymous)]

I think I will add in the Middle Pillar exercise soon, then. I've been moving slowly through the first 6 chapters of LRM.

After adding the Middle Pillar exercise, how long can I keep that as my holding pattern?

Thank you!!

Re: Golden Dawn & AMORC

[ecosophia]

The LBRP and Middle Pillar between them make the standard GD ritual practice. You can do those two, without any other ritual work, for the rest of your life.

Re: Golden Dawn & AMORC

[(Anonymous)]

Awesome! Thank you!!