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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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

1) A rather technical question: I am finding it problematic to understand sublimation / degradation in the sense that I find it hard to imagine to (physically) dissolve physical matter and put it back together on the astral plane, for example. Yesterday during meditation the thought occurred to me that maybe it's not about sublimating/degrading the matter of any plane (at least not for a tiny human being) but sublimating/degrading configurations of matter?

2) A more personal question: The veil that separates "me" from remembering memories of past lives, perceive beyond the physical senses has always been translucent to some degree. After starting regular spiritual practice, it seems to have become slightly more translucent, which I don't mind at all. Yesterday evening, though, I pondered your answer from last week about the lower/higher self, cosmic atom, etc. Out of nowhere there was an experience that I can only circumscribe with the image of a snail that quickly backs away into it's house when you put your hand or some obstacle close to it. It was basically the opposite experience compared to sudden glimpses of hidden realities. It seemed to be an automatic and rather unpleasant reaction. During the day, the snail has slowly left the house again, so to say. Is there anything you can say about such experiences?

3) More generally: The emotional intensity of memories comes with the identification with the content. How much identification comes with memories of previous lives? Is there, for example, a difference in the experience of painful memories of this life compared to previous ones?

Thank you!
Nachtgurke

[ecosophia]

1) Good. Yes, exactly -- it's the form that sublimates. The substance remains.

2) That's very common, especially if you have unpleasant experiences in your past lives -- and all of us do. Let it pass; it's a reaction born of fear, and over time you'll get comfortable with even the most awkward memories.

3) I don't know how this works with other people, but for me, the level of identification is much the same. I still feel deeply ashamed of things I did many lives ago.