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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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Nicknames, Caricatures and Curses
(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 05:47 am (UTC)(link)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.
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(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Nicknames, Caricatures and Curses
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(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 09:32 pm (UTC)(link)Re: Nicknames, Caricatures and Curses
Wrong name, wrong target.