ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's getting toward 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. Papus and Chaboseau, the honorees of the last two weeks, each got their Martinist lineage by a tangle of mostly forgotten figures, so we can jump straight back to one of the founders of the tradition, Louis-Claude de St. Martin. St. Martin was born in 1743 in an aristocratic family and became a student of the elusive master Martinez de Pasqually, learning the distinctive system of theurgic magic Pasqually taught. Later in life, after Pasqually's death, he focused more of his attention on Christian mysticism, studied Jacob Boehme's writings, and penned a series of influential mystical tracts under the pseudonym "The Unknown Philosopher."

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Hi JMG,

I was thinking of a discussion on your blog a while back regarding Magic Resistance-type projects to curse Vladimir Putin and how they were likely to fail due to using the romanized version of his name. By this same principle, does it follow that the heavy use of insulting images and nicknames for a person makes it less likely that collective ill-intent will affect them? For example: Drumpf, Blurmph, Big Cheeto, der Drumpenfuhrer, etc. Couple that with all the silly caricatures cooked up by cartoonists and it seems likely that many of Trump's detractors will vent their derangement syndrome on these names and images in their heads rather than at the man himself. Recall also the panoply of nicknames for George W. Bush: Duhbya, Shrub, Chimpy McCokespoon and so on. I always had a sense that all this nicknaming was self-defeating along with being juvenile and I feel like I've just connected some dots as to why.

That's a good point, but don't say it too loudly -- I'd rather have practitioners of evil magic keep on directing their hatred and rage against empty caricatures of their own creation, so that it doesn't affect its target. This is better for the evil magicians, for that matter, since they don't reap the nasty karma of actually hurting someone other than themselves.

The type of people who do that stuff would probably be as receptive to such advice as the Magic Resistance was to your warnings about their rituals.

Here's hoping.

Molly Ivins did die of cancer. I hope it wasn't raspberry jam for "Shrub" and "Dubya." Of course the Orange Man himself is a great one for assigning nicknames to people.

I remember one origin of nicknames in the West was as a protective measure against curses and evil spirits.

Wrong name, wrong target.

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