Magic Monday

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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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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting, what do you think about forex in this context? Trades are made based on the value of one currency relative to another, so fluctuations in the value of a pair can have wide-ranging implications based on which currencies' value ratio is changing. One currency gaining in value relative to another isn't always a good thing for the people using that currency. For example, export economies don't want to have a currency that's too valuable relative to their main import customers. It seems hard to tell what's most aligned with human well-being in this case.

[(Anonymous)]

That sounds like a good question, but yeah, I don't really know enough political macroeconomics to really guess the principles by which someone would be doing good by arranging for the people in one country or another to have trade vs. currency deficits, or thwarting or assisting government interventions in such markets to do that. But it does seem like that would have to be something that a properly chosen per-trade or per-repositioning divination was indirectly taking into account anyway.

I don't have hardly anything in the way of relevant experience, I'm just highlighting some of the ways that principles I do know would connect in ways that other people might not know to think of.

[(Anonymous)]

(continued)

Now that I've thought about it a little more, I guess the first thing to check would be: if you imagined a typical situation where someone knew where a currency exchange market was going to be some months in advance, but didn't make the corresponding trades, would there be some small marginal effect where some small increment of extra wealth would tend to fail to be produced over the next few years, because resources (or liquidity?) weren't correctly allocated as much or as far in advance as they could have been, across the countries in question? (Then you could think through well-being effects after thinking through that wealth effect.) I don't have great economic intuition here, but probably the situation with countries will prove to be analogous to a situation where there were companies that had unusually fluid mechanisms for issuing or selling stocks.