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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A wonderful day to you, JMG, and to everybody else! :-)

I‘m trying to hone my magical thinking, i.e. my understanding of how magic works and what it can do, and promptly got stuck on one of my thought exercises :D - would appreciate your input!

1. You often stress that if somebody uses hostile magic on a victim, the best thing would be for that victim to put the energy which is thrown at them to another, productive and positive use.

How could one apply this principle on cases of energy vampirism? In my understanding, in this case there is no excess energy, but rather energy being pulled away from the victim, so to speak.

How could one turn this around to something productive and positive?

2. A potential solution I came up with is giving the energy vampire something to pull towards them, in particular something the victim wants to get rid of anyway. E.g. excess weight for an overweight victim etc.

Would something like that, in theory, work, or is this not something magic could do?

3. What is your personal take on the ethics of such a solution as in 2.?

(For what it‘s worth, I‘m torn on it. If there is no other, milder way of stopping things, I suppose this would be better than letting the energy vampirism continue unchecked. On the other hand, it‘s not exactly taking the high road… Your thoughts appreciated!)

Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us again this week. And if you would have them, my blessings to you and your wife.

Milkyway

There are two ways to deal with an energy vampire. The first is to stop the vampirism from affecting you, using protective rituals and amulets. The second is to feed it energies you want to get rid of. Obesity isn't an energy -- it has many causes, and most of them these days are biological rather than psychological or energetic. (You might be surprised how many heavily marketed medicines have weight gain as a side effect.) But if you want to be rid of depression, frustration, leftover emotions from bad childhood experiences, etc., the vampire might be a good garbage disposal. No, it's not the high road, but in my experience energy vampires dislike that sort of treatment so much that they go away very quickly.

Thanks! :-)

Completely unrelated: You gave some excellent advice a little while ago which has helped me a great deal in a difficult situation. Thanks a lot for that, too! :-) (and, well, TSW - but then you know that… ;-) ).

Milkyway

How do you control what an energy vampire gets?

Regular meditation will teach you how to direct your vital energy this way or that; once you've gotten to that point, it's easy. Before then, I recommend the first option.

As I understand it, meditation is primarily an astral and mental plane activity; and energy vampires work mostly on the etheric plane. Why would learning skills on these higher planes give any skill on the lower ones?

Because each plane controls the plane immediately beneath it. Master your astral body and you control your etheric body.

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