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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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TS for sure W
(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 06:08 am (UTC)(link)A few months ago, under the influence of certain New Thought figures, I tried an affirmation. It was something like “I am successful.” For now I prefer to be little coy about the exact wording.
One day I repeated this affirmation, or one very similar to it, for some time with great vigor and passionate conviction. This was no mere mechanical repetition; I really put my heart into it. Doing so felt heady, exhilarating.
The very next day I found myself in the parking lot of my local supermarket. As I left my vehicle behind and headed for the entrance, a man approached me. I didn’t know him from Adam nor he me. He stepped right in front of me and spoke. And do you know what he said?
He declared loudly,
SIR! YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL! YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL!
He repeated this several times. Completely out of the blue.
Half an hour later, as I bagged my groceries and prepared to leave the checkout counter, there he was again, right in front of me. And again he said:
SIR! YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL!
More than once. It was kind of an embarrassing situation, but I’m not complaining. I’m fine with it.
Not for a millisecond do I believe this happened by mere coincidence, nor that it would even once in a thousand years.
I am unshakably convinced that somehow my thought and feeling propagated outward in whatever medium carries them and influenced a receptive mind in such a way as to produce this response.
So now for my question. What is that medium? Is its nature etheric, or it astral? How high up the planes must thought and feeling travel to be communicated in this way?
I’m hoping to find constructive ways to employ this phenomenon to my advantage, and that of those I care about, and for the disadvantage of no one.
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As for the medium, all the planes are continuous. Matter is the lumpiest of all, and even so the far end of physics shows that atoms aren't little lumps of stuff in vacuums, they're fields of force that interact in some way with every atom in the universe. In the same way, the life force of the etheric plane -- why, "it surrounds us and penetrates us, it binds the galaxy together." The astral plane, ditto, which is why thoughts and feelings flow so easily from mind to mind -- and the same is true of every other plane. You are never actually cut off from anything else in the cosmos on any plane of being.
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(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)Your words seem to suggest that consciousness might travel even on the physical plane. The idea that we are connected with everything is inspiring, but also a little scary. One doesn’t want to excite a connection with, say, Ahrimanic spirits. Must choose spiritual company carefully!
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(Anonymous) 2023-07-31 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)—Princess Cutekitten