ecosophia | Magic Monday

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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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Hello JMG,

I recently came upon an article about supposedly the oldest and biggest pyramids on the planet, the Visoko complex in Bosnia and Herzegovina. LINK to the website for reference. The article and reference encompass a large array of topics and I would not go all that much into it. But one thing stuck out. They state, that the great pyramid was obviously sealed about 5000 years ago. This got me thinking. Coming off of your Secret of the Grail; the wells/longbarrows were also sealed up. Now everyone keeps saying how this sites were beneficial, or they generate positive energy, they heal, etc. So why seal them up and abandon them? Why the same pattern of abandonment by our ancestors?
As a mater of fact, could it be related to the fact, that the site of the Temple of Solomon, supposedly one of the great nexuses of the world. Is also sealed up and a constant political hotspot?

On another note, I have been in the process of carving a DMH wand, and seem to have enough material to make another one that I would gift to a friend. Are there any considerations I should take into account? Obviously I will carve it, but can I engrave symbols or dedications? I would not consecrate the gifted wand, but can I bless it, or ask a goddess to bless it?

Best regards,
V

1) Thank you for the link about the Bosnian pyramids -- I've seen a few discussions of them here and there but haven't followed up on that. The largest of them is pretty impressive:

The long barrows were indeed sealed up. Nobody knows for sure why that was done; the inner work I've done suggests that it was a change of religions, from an earth-centered tradition to a solar and lunar tradition, and it had roughly the same emotional charge as Christians turning their backs on Paganism thousands of years later.

2) You can certainly do that. The wand I used for that work was purchased from a wand maker at a Pagan event in Ohio, and she blessed all the wands she sold.

1. Interestingly it just poped up today. Glad you found it interesting.

2. Am I right that if I would like to inscribe something on it, a quality, or druidic concept, it should be just that, superficial. And a blessing should be general and left at that. Not to impose on the person and to let them take the wand where he wants to go.

2) Yes, very much so.

I would take anything re the Visoko complex with a very large grain of salt (the size of your fist). More sober observers have pointed out that these are natural formations called flatirons. If they were used or modified by neolithic people, we'll never know for sure how much, because the huckster 'developing' the site has put in a considerable amount of his own modifications. Some of the tunnels are ones he dug himself. The rest may or may not be ancient mines. How old? What was being mined? Who knows? This guy's a businessman with no professional training in how to dig up an ancient site. The Bosnian government is so desperate for revenue that they are letting him trample over any real archeological sites creating a spiritual theme park all for the sake of a fast convertible mark.

I sincerely apologize for the screed but stuff like this just irks me to tears. With a public so hungry for anything sacred, even a site like this pulls in the spiritually starved at the expense of genuine sites either ancient or newly created. When the money dries up, this place likely will as well. And we'll no wiser afterwards than we were before.

Fulvous Harebrained Spider

I agree with everything you said.
This is why I just posted the link, said I will not go into it, and asked about a train of thought that this inspired.

As for the rest. Let each reader, if inclined, read up and make his own mind.
Me I would perhaps look into taking a vacation there and putting on my clearest skeptics goggles:-)
And if I am proven wrong, then I’d be glad.

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