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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

[zosmia]

Thank you for hosting this site and Magic Monday specifically. After reading through a number of your works, I feel the most drawn to the Golden Section work and before I begin the work I have a couple of questions that are lingering which I was hoping you could answer.

>First, as you are a holder of a number of lineages I was wondering which lineage this is most directly related to.

>Next, I was wondering when starting the work if it matters if you start with the Occult Philosophy workbook or the Golden Section workbook. I was personally thinking of starting with the Occult Philosophy workbook as it seemed a good primer and review of the fundamentals.

>Also I have been a Chinese internal martial art practitioner for over 20 years both Tai Chi and Ba Gwa and am wondering if there is anything I should be aware of when combining these practices with the Golden Section work. In the past, I believe you have made comment about this but could not find it.

>Finally, I understand that the Golden Section work is occult work versus magic work. Would you be able to expand on this and also could you recommend what other work of yours is most compatible with the golden section work specfically if one wanted to work with magic some day.

Once again, thank you for efforts in supporting the occult. It is mostly definitely appreciated by those of us wandering these somewhat overgrown side roads.

Thanks,

Brian

[ecosophia]

1) The Golden Section Fellowship (GSF) derives from the traditions I received from John Gilbert. it was common back in the day for bishops in the Universal Gnostic Church to found fellowships of their own, which took the basic template of the UGC and its related traditions and applied them to some specific field of occult study. This is my contribution along those lines.

2) You can do those in either order.

3) You'll want to be careful, when you get to The Way of the Golden Section, about the practice involving the solar plexus and the pineal gland. I don't happen to know how that will interact with whatever qigong practices are part of your lineage. If you have any doubts, just keep doing your martial arts work and leave out the solar plexus-pineal gland work; you'll get to the same place by a different route.

4) The Fellowship of the Hermetic Rose, my reworking of John Gilbert's magical order, is 100% compatible with the Golden Section work.

[zosmia]

Thank you! Looks like I have several years worth of work in front of me. I'm assuming the OSA work would also align given the Hermetic Rose work is on that home page.

Thanks,

Brian

[ecosophia]

Yes. FHR, OSA, Modern Order of Essenes, Universal Gnostic Church, Ancient Order of Druids in America, and Golden Section Fellowship -- they're all fully compatible with one another.