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

[taylorrose]

I had three questions:

1) Any thoughts about the ethics and responsibilities surrounding teaching?

2) Any thoughts about dealing with past lives? It felt appropriate to open up to (and affirmed by divination). I didn't take any active measures other than deciding I was stable enough to deal with something that had been hanging over me for years. The results have been somewhat overwhelming.

3) Any thoughts about the karmic repercussions of being conscripted or forced into military service?

[ecosophia]

1) You can't control what people are going to do with what you teach them. It's important to give them as good a chance as possible to make the right decisions, but some will crash and burn.

2) Those show up when you're karmically and evolutionarily ready for them. Yes, it can be overwhelming, but once that stage gets past it's very helpful to know where you've been and why you're here.

3) That's something that happens if you have karma to work off. What you have no control over generates no new karma.

[(Anonymous)]

3) I'm not the OP, but strictly speaking, isn't there always a choice even if most or even all of them are terrible? In the case of forced military service, there have been quite a few people who choose to go to prison rather than serve; and even in cases where the outcome of refusal is harsher, there have been people who chose to defect, tried to mutiny, or allowed the state to kill them.

So I suppose then it's more a case of the less control you have, the less karma you generate? Is this a topic for meditation?

[ecosophia]

Yes, that's a good generalization -- and yes, it's a fine topic for meditation.

[taylorrose]

As always, thank you.