Magic Monday

[ecosophia]

It's nearly 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've been tracing my lineages back as far as I can, and last week took my Martinist lineage back as far as they can be documented. The next step -- and it's the last step in the entire process -- involves a fair bit of speculation, but it's speculation backed up by some evidence. It's been suggested by some historians, Marsha Keith Schuchard foremost among them, that the mysterious Knight of the Red Feather who conferred the Templar lineage on Baron von Hund, last week's honoree, was none other than Charles Stuart, the Bonnie Prince Charlie of Scottish song and story. The claim is that in the years immediately before 1745, when the House of Stuart made its last (and disastrously unsuccessful) attempt to reclaim the British throne, Charles and his inner circle of supporters used various forms of clandestine Freemasonry to raise funds, engage in espionage, and gather arms and supporters for the planned rising. Baron von Hund's initiation was an incident in that process. Martinez de Pasqually, who was honored a couple of weeks back, also claimed to have a charter signed by Charles Stuart as the basis for his occult Masonic order. So it's possible that what lies behind one of the great traditions of Western occultism is a failed political intrigue that got picked up and repurposed by a couple of canny occultists. Stranger things have happened in the history of occultism.

...And with this, the rambling tale of the odd lineages that I've inherited comes to an end. Now I'll have to think of something else to use as illustrations to Magic Mondays!

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***This Magic Monday is now closed. See you next week!***

***Please note -- when Magic Monday is closed, IT'S CLOSED.  I just had to delete a flurry of attempted comments posted up to eleven hours after I shut things down. I do need some time to write and do other online chores, you know, so please don't keep trying to post after 12:00 am Monday night/Tuesday morning -- there'll be a new Magic Monday in a week, you know. ***

Comments

[ecosophia]

Just pick it up with the next ritual and keep going. You'll be back around the wheel of the year soon enough.

[ecosophia]

The Law of Attraction is crap. Well, not completely, but the way it's presented in New Age literature these days? Extreme crap. No, the universe doesn't want to give you whatever you want, and it doesn't matter how hard you try to convince yourself that it will. If your attitudes are getting in the way of what you want? Sure, then affirmations can help a lot. If it's something more external than that? Sorry.

I like the Positive Rhinos. They may just feature on a bill with Tubular Swine, one of the bands I've already come up with.

[(Anonymous)]

Which, if it happens, will be another own goal of epic proportion. Why should student loans be forgiven but not, ex, business loans? Once loan forgiveness is implemented as a policy, people will be less inclined to lend money, sending rates up. All of which will hurt the financial sector, which is what the current elites use for their base of power...

[ecosophia]

Get a handheld folding fan, some incense in a burner, some water, and some salt. Use the fan to blow air across it and say, "I consecrate you with the element of air." Hold it over the incense, letting the smoke flow over the blade, and say, "I consecrate you with the element of fire." Sprinkle some water over it with your fingertips and say, "I consecrate you with the element of water." Sprinkle some of the salt across it and say, "I consecrate you with the element of earth." Then breathe on it three times and say, "I consecrate you with the element of spirit."

You can make the words fancier than that, call on spirits or deities, etc., but that's your basic Universal Gnostic consecration and it works quite well.

Naming a child

[(Anonymous)]

Are there any metaphysical dimensions to naming a child? So for example if I give my child a name that means strength will said child be more likely to be stronger?

Re: Naming a child

[ecosophia]

Names have influence, but they're not omnipotent. You can name a girl "Mercy" and it may not make her merciful, but it'll push gently in that direction; as long as the rest of her upbringing doesn't push in the opposite direction, it may accomplish something!

[(Anonymous)]

I know what a physical body is, but I have a hard time conceptualizing what an etheric body is. Is it more like a wavelength of light? What does it “look” like? Thank you. - Croatoan

[ecosophia]

The etheric plane is the closest of all the inner planes to the material plane, and the most like matter. Etheric substance is not quite as solid as material substance, and it interpenetrates matter freely, but if you were to practice etheric projection -- one form of out-of-body experience -- your etheric body would feel just as solid as your material body does.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm planning to get a job in another country to get out of Canada; for somewhat complex reasons, my heart is set on a job in the Middle East. Everything has been falling perfectly into place: I had exactly enough money for the Arabic class I plan to use, which fits perfectly into my schedule. The class has a week long break during the week when the next interview for the job is planned, and the interview will be held where my grandparents live. The Arabic class will be taught by someone from the same country as the job will be in; as a result of several totally bizarre events several years ago, I have experience living in a third world country, which will look remarkably good when talking about how I'll adjust to life in another country; and the list of weird coincidences keeps growing.

What sort of things can lead to this sort of remarkably good luck? I've never been especially lucky before; in fact, my luck has consistently been mediocre at best, and I'm quite enjoying whatever this is, but it's frankly baffling and more than a little weird.

[(Anonymous)]

I know we don't explicitly carry a lot of knowledge from one incarnation to the next.

Is there some way that I can make sure my next incarnation is aware of this information at the earliest possible moment, so it can proceed accordingly?

Re: Puppy vision

[tunesmyth]

Oh, and I should add, as it sounds like the day is coming soon, at any point do feel free to request prayers for your stepdaughter and her baby, if she is okay with such prayers.

[ecosophia]

You can't. Why are you so fixated on trying to control the process instead of leaving it in the hands of the gods where it belongs?

Re: Healing unintentionally

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not discussing the plenty of scenarios that you are able to entertain. I'm discussing the demonic efflorescence our world is thankfully now beginning to recover from. You have eloquently expressed the confidence you place in materialism, scientific replication, and others being limited to whatever talents you have been willing to let yourself experience. Given those beliefs underpinning your worldview, your objection to anyone else's confidence that is not both dependent on and derived from those narratives is unsurprising.

— Christophe

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not trying to control the process. :-)

But, for me, the concept of marriage loses a great deal of appeal under this paradigm compared to my prior paradigm.

[(Anonymous)]

2) Not the OP, but I called it off with someone because she knew I believed in reincarnation and got upset I wanted to keep "Til death do us part" in our wedding vows, and not try to bind us together after death. What kind of mess did I avoid with that decision?

Re: Prayer regarding surgery today

[tunesmyth]

Sorry, by "today", I think he meant Tuesday, as I received the prayer later in the day on Monday. Maybe? I get a little confused being on the other side of the world sometimes.

[ecosophia]

Any of a hundred different things could cause that. It could be your destiny to go there; you could have subconsciously been saving up good luck for this; someone else's luck or destiny or karma could depend on your being there, and so on.

[ecosophia]

It strikes me as unwise, but probably ineffective. Joseph Smith was a capable occultist, but I'm not at all sure his current heirs are anything like as good.

[ecosophia]

Impossible to say without knowledge of both people's karma, which I don't have. I would have done the same thing, though.