Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

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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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

Comments

Cosmic Doctrine

[(Anonymous)]

Morning John,
There is an interesting section in the Cosmic Doctrine that I would appreciate your thoughts on. It relates to the 5th death.
“He then seeks freedom from the lesser love, and with this desire for escape from that which is good though finite in order to realise the good that is infinite, causes the fifth death, and he is born into consciousness of the Individuality and lives upon the planes of the Individuality, perceiving “the face of the Father which is in heaven” but with the asking of desire come again the dreams and with the dreams come the recall into matter, the Spirit “beholding the face of the Father” until consciousness is weary with its brightness, closes its eyes and sleeps and sleeping, it dreams of its unfilled desires and so it is born again, for upon the plane of desire a state of consciousness is a place, and as we desire so are we reborn, thus each man makes his own Karma.”
This section seems to sketch out how the Individuality falls back into incarnation, and it seems to hinge on “the asking of desire”, which then causes the Individuality to turn away from the brightness of the divine and fall back into material form. Is this the right interpretation? And why would the Individuality having finally achieved the task of perceiving the face of God seek suddenly to turn away again?
Kind regards
Averagejoe

Re: Cosmic Doctrine

[ecosophia]

What Fortune is describing here is one of the details of the after-death process. Once the personality of the last life has been absorbed, the Individuality is able to awaken to its real nature for a little while. It maintains that state only for a relatively brief time, because it still has work to do in incarnation.