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, and at this point we've reached a genuine man of mystery, Jacques de Livron Joachim de la Tour de la Casa Martinez de Pasqually. Nobody knows when Martinez de Pasqually was born or where he came from; what's known about him is that he showed up in southern France in 1754, taught an extraordinarily rich system of Gnostic esoteric philosophy and practice to a circle of pupils that included Louis-Claude de St.-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, and then sailed away to the Caribbean in 1772 and reportedly died there two years later. The image I've posted is one of the very few portraits of the man.

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

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Good Evening JMG,

I recently had a rather vivid dream where I think I may have been visited by a goddess or other powerful female/feminine entity. This involved the most beautiful music I ever "heard" (rather lucidly); female choral singing with some exotic-sounding stringed instrumentation that followed later. "She" didn't appear in any sort of anthropomorphic form, just as a hexagram of blazing/brilliant white and golden light with a blue sky in the background.

1. I know dream interpretation isn't your thing, so I won't ask for that. My first question is that do you know of any goddess who uses such a symbol or anything like that as her calling card? Of course I open this up to the commentariat if you've never heard of or seen a blazing hexagram or choral singing associated with a goddess.

2. Is performing SOP silently any less powerful than doing so while sounding the words out loud? While doing it silently I'm still doing all the hand gestures and directional positioning normally, and of course visualizing everything as instructed.

-Cyan Truculent Possum

[ecosophia]

1) Choral singing seems to be pretty common in divine manifestations. As for the hexagram on a blue sky background, that's a solar symbol in Western occult tradition, so you may be dealing with a sun goddess.

2) It's less powerful, because the vibration gives it additional power all the way down to the material plane. Still, if you need to do it silently for some reason, that's still effective -- you'll just have to work a little harder to make it equally effective.