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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An awakened sense - a divine calling?

[inykane]

As I understand, one point of magical practice is to awaken modes of experiencing that are for one reason or another not operational in the practitioner. Likely due to consistent practice of the ritual, meditations etc. I have had something curious happening. The best I can describe is is some sort of a divine call.

It started more or less around when I found myself drawn to a local deity, "The Master of the Woods". The best I can describe is some sort of a pull that is not in any way violent in its nature, but can perhaps be called an "urge" to somehow "get into contact" with the said deity. There is a sense of "otherworldly joy" in the experience and also something I could perhaps call "a meaning". It is also something very raw and likely powerful. I somehow "know" that I could easily give in to it and get lost in the experience.

Now instead of fully opening myself to that experience, I performed the closing gesture and basically calmed down. I still feel the "sparkle" inside, but I am not sure what to do with it. I have carried on with the rituals etc. as before, hoping I could open up to that sensation with the opening ritual, but so far it has not happened. There may be some subtle changes, but nothing overt.

My questions are:

1) is magical practice compatible with a closer union with a deity?
2) if I were to let this union take place, how should I go about doing it?
3) is it appropriate and wise to ask the deity for assistance in the magical practice, namely to become open to the higher realities?

Re: An awakened sense - a divine calling?

[ecosophia]

1) It's a very common thing for mages to do.

2) Ask the deity. He's the expert on the subject.

3) It's a very, very common thing for mages to do.