Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's 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. Along with Louis-Claude de St. Martin, last week's honoree, the inner circle of pupils of Martinez de Pasqually included this week's figure, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. A very active Freemason, Willermoz played a central role in cleaning up the mess left by the implosion of the Strict Observance (the most important Templar order in 18th century Europe) and created a new order with its own rituals, the Rectified Rite, which survives to this day. Much of what became the ritual of Martinism came from Willermoz's hands.

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

Comments

The collective unconscious

[artsmith]

Hi JMG and everyone else.
Thank you Mr Greer for all your work and for giving up your time to field questions. I credit you with helping me to find a socially useful job to do which has raised my spirits greatly.
Do occulists have a word for people who seem to front run changes in society on an emotional level? There are individuals and small groups who seem to be processing the fads and manias of western society slightly ahead of the herd. I am not really talking about those who are grappling intellectually with the loss of cheap, dense, easily extracted energy sources more a sort of emotional patterning around loss, material insecurity and faint glimmerings of the freedom to do behave differently and choose different priorities.
Is this a phenomena you recognise and does it perform a specific function for us collectively?
Lilac Squarmaus Oyster

Re: The collective unconscious

[ecosophia]

I think the technical term is "weirdos." ;-)

Seriously, I don't know of a specific term for such people, but it's a known phenomenon. In every society there's a majority who cling to the status quo and a minority who stray off in various directions. When the status quo becomes hopelessly dysfunctional, the minority on the fringe becomes crucially important, as they're the ones who have the chance to find their way to some more productive path.

Re: The collective unconscious

[(Anonymous)]

When you're one step ahead of the crowd you're a genius. When you're two steps ahead, you're a crackpot.
Shlomo Riskin

Lol you go off to do your own thing only to find a few years later everyone else is doing it after thinking you were a weirdo, it's just irritating!