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)]

Hello JMG and everybody,

I would love to hear any thoughts you might have about this question:

Q. Are you familiar with the work of Neville Goddard?

I first encountered Neville back in 2009 when I read Regardie's 'Teachers of Fulfillment' (a shortened version of The Romance of Metaphysics), which had a chapter on Neville. I have since read all of Neville's work and listened to all of the audio recordings of his lectures that I can find.

Neville has become very popular in the last 10-15 years; especially in the last 10 years.

Regardie seemed to appreciate Neville and his work. Ragardie said that of all the New Thought/systems of Metaphysics that he was acquainted with, Neville's was the most "magical."

Neville also wrote a book which had many stories from people who had made his methods of "manifestation" work. There's also a Reddit page/community for people studying his work. However, I find Reddit to be too chaotic.

I'm just curious if you or the commentariat have any experience with Neville's work.

Thanks for your time and generous help.

[ecosophia]

I've read a little of Goddard's work. It struck me as good standard New Thought material; I'd studied the same sort of thing in other contexts, so didn't pursue it, but I don't know of any reason not to recommend it.

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

Thanks for answering.


Are you referring to the Order of the Essenes New Thought course? I've seen you mention that on a few occasions.


Can you tell me, what benefits did you get from the Essene course? (If that's what you're referring to).

Thanks.

[ecosophia]

Yes, it was the OE course. That was a good solid whack upside the head for me; it taught me that most of what was causing me to experience problems in my career and my life was my own doing, and also taught me how to change that. It did me an enormous amount of good in practical terms.

(If anyone else is wondering what we're talking about, the whole course is available for free download here.)

[(Anonymous)]

Wow! that's high praise, indeed.


How long should we spend on each lesson? Is it one week per lesson?


Thanks again.

[ecosophia]

Yes, it's one week per lesson. The first two courses take a year between them; that's got most of the meat of the system, and it's a year well worth your time.

[(Anonymous)]

Goddard brought a certain intellectual depth and coherence to the idea of manifestation that makes it more compelling than the pop culture The Secret stuff. He also seems to have had a serious familiarity with the Cabala.

I think the weakness of his method is that it works exceptionally well for someone like NG who had a naturally rich imaginative faculty. For more ordinary people the symbolic work and study of occultism is useful. Also, some followers of his work seem to me to exaggerate what his Law of Assumption can be expected to accomplish.