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

China

[(Anonymous)]

Have you seen the latest china news . They have insulted another god. If you see the pathway of the taifun that hit Beijing area avoiding Taiwan that would have weakened the taifun and hitting full force in the North. It is brutal to watch floods partially done by the government but partially by some really angry deity. Apparently the temple of the storm dragon and its son's was spared.

Also another god has made itself known of this age perkunas i think

When a totem pole mysteriously appeared on a popular coastal path in south-east England.
The 8ft (2.4-metre) wooden pole, erected on the clifftops on the North Downs Way in Kent, between Folkestone and Dover, has particularly provoked interest for its inscription with the name Perkūnas, the Baltic god of thunder.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/09/mystery-totem-pole-appears-on-coastal-path-in-south-east-england

The council in all its wisdom wants to demolish it because no permit.

Re: China

[ecosophia]

1) No surprises there. Atheist governments may need to rethink their beliefs.

2) No, I hadn't heard of that! And Perkunas, too -- translate that as Perun, Thor, Thunor, and (just possibly) Bran, and you've got a very ancient and widespread deity. (I tend to think of Bran and Beli, the archaic pair of quarreling deities from Celtic antiquity, as cognates of Perun and Velezh, who had the same role among the Slavs.)

Re: China

[(Anonymous)]

But a proper government is supposed to be atheistic. If a government chooses one religion over the others, the people of minority religions, nonbelievers and occultists will inevitably face discrimination. I'm not a fan of China's totalitarian regime, but a religious regime is not a good alternative in its stead.

Re: China

[ecosophia]

It's a false binary to assume that a government has to be either atheistic or dogmatically religious. The middle ground is a government that sustains freedom of religion, and neither favors any one religion over any other nor puts barriers in the way of religious practice -- you know, like the United States had until quite recently.

Re: China

[jruss]

And of course you can official religion(s) with others also enjoying a great deal of freedom.

Re: China

[jruss]

Do you think the gods will eventually end the CCP and possibly prevent an invasion of Taiwan, or failing that prevent a CCP victory?

Re: China

[ecosophia]

It depends on what the gods choose to do. I don't have access to their discussions.

Re: China

[jruss]

This is true and if you ever do [insert lottery numbers joke here.]

Re: China

[robertmathiesen]

On the Perkūnas pole see now the good short article by Francis Young:

https://drfrancisyoung.com/2023/08/10/talking-perkunas-on-bbc-today/

Re: China

[open_space]

Having grown in an mostly atheist civilization I didn't know the importance of considering the gods in the material plane. Until early this year when the priest that did offerings to the Popocatepetl volcano in Mexico wasn't allowed to do it by the government --a few months later there was an earthquake and a considerable eruption...

Re: China

[(Anonymous)]

To me that is a godpole, not a "totem pole." Godpoles appear in Germanic, Norse and Slavic traditions; a great many contemporary Heathens carve and set up godpoles on their land or at their Moot grounds. I was not aware of the Baltic tradition until now, but in just a cursory web search I've seen some very impressive work, so thanks for the reference, Anon!

--Sister Crow