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John Michael Greer ([personal profile] ecosophia) wrote2023-08-13 11:34 pm

Magic Monday

Martinez de PasquallyIt'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 hereAlso: 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!***

(Anonymous) 2023-08-15 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
I've been mulling over something, and have formulated a hypothesis that, while it explains a lot of things, is deeply, deeply troubling, and would like to know if you can think of anything to add. It begins with the idea of Pluto as an overgrown comet; and that therefore, Pluto marks the intrusion of another system between us and the Central Stillness. It then builds off the idea of comets taking the souls of those who are severely imbalanced away to somewhere else.

Now, at some point then, those who still resonate with Pluto will need to leave to join the planet. Pluto, meanwhile, has two obsessions which currently seem to be leading to a lot of people dying: the first is the illusion of powerlessness (and those people being talked into suicide here in Canada seem to be falling victim to it) and the second is the obsessive pursuit of wealth and power (and there are a large number of people ruining their health with medical experiments in that pursuit); and so those who don't embrace their agency, or who seek control over the world, are going to end up dying messily between now and 2036.

The really troubling part of this is that it would, in a weird way, explain why there's been such a strong fear of death since Pluto took hold: if a lot of souls are about to be sucked away from our universe, then this would, presumably, be something a lot of people would sense; and this would even be, in the twisted sort of way I've come to recognize as Plutonian, the fulfillment of the promise of nothingness after death that plays such a large role in the Plutonian worldview...