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Magic Monday
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!***
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To share, for those who wonder what LARP, IIRC or TSW mean, I've compiled a list of Ecosophia abbreviations.
Thanks for appearing on two new podcasts, I'm looking forward to listen to them!
To ask, I've read people mention the Qabalistic Cross and Rose Cross rituals. These both appear to be part of the Golden Dawn tradition. What is the goal of these? What are the differences between the two? Which of your books describes them?
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3) They're both in Circles of Power.
2) They're completely different in every way; the Cabalistic Cross (hereafter CC) is an opening and closing practice used at the beginning and end of many rituals, while the Rose Cross ritual (hereafter R+C) is a specific, standalone ritual of blessing. They literally don't have a single word or action in common.
1) The CC is meant to balance and energize the subtle body at the beginning and end of a ritual. The R+C is meant to call down specific positive energies into all the levels of the self as a form of blessing.
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Thanks! I should have checked my copy of Circles of Power before I asked.
On the Arcanvm podcast I heard you mention The Druid Path. You might enjoy hearing that my local bookstore had The Druid Path in store, and told me I wouldn't have had to order it. They even had a Dutch translation Het pad van de druïden which was on display!
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