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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With that said, have at it!

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A good day to you!

1) The SOP from DMH and the version you have shared here differ slightly. Is there anything speaking against exchanging the closing of the "blog-version" with the circulation of light as described in the DMH?

2) Trying to make sense of the various versions of "self"...
... lower self = personality?
... higher self = individuality?
... guardian angel = ?
... cosmic atom = ?

The higher self is something that you can - as is said - "merge into" or be absorbed into or identify with, or however it's called. It's basically you, only that most of us aren't conscious of it.
The cosmic atom is described very similarly and eventually, a highly evolved being might make contact with the cosmic atom that "projected" or dreamed all these selves into being. So it's basically an "even higher self"?
How does the guardian angel fit into the scheme?

Puzzled,
Nachtgurke

[ecosophia]

1) You can mix and match. I give different versions of the SoP in different books and blog posts to keep fundamentalists at bay.

2) The lower self is the personality. The higher self is the individuality and the cosmic atom -- all three of these terms mean the same thing. The guardian angel is the divine spark, an energy/entity radiated by the Solar Logos to help guide and protect the individual soul.