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

Re: Healing unintentionally

[(Anonymous)]

Your gift may eventually turn out to be some freak corollary to cleaning toilets without complaining in order to be given a better assignment later, but I think it is much more likely that you've been gifted this ability because it lines up perfectly with where you are in your soul's development. Your goddess had all of humanity to choose from; she probably did not make any divine mistake in choosing you. Healing is quite an amazing gift, and you may in due course find yourself unexpectedly thrilled by the possibilities it can open up in your life. Have you tried using it on yourself yet, say by practicing some purposeful yawning when you're all alone? The clearer you yourself are of blockages, the easier it will be for you to then clear others' blockages without their anxiety knocking you out or causing you any unwelcome discomfort.

Those myriad blockages in all of us are not only a part of the reason why we behave as badly as we do; they're the better part of that reason. We come into each incarnation as refreshed and cleared of blockages as we'll ever be (excluding those sad beings whose higher self got so overwhelmed that it fled from incarnation, leaving a demon-sized void where their higher self had once been.) The subsequent process of living our lives includes a steady increase in the number of parasites feeding on our energies, until the boon of death once again frees us from all those energetic encumbrances. We're not that different from a healthy little acorn growing up into a mighty oak, which serves as host to an entire ecosystem of fungi, bacteria, other plants, bugs, and animals, both symbiotic and parasitic, until enough of the tree's defenses have once again gotten compromised for it to die, starting the process over anew.

Your goddess must have recognized that our world could really benefit from a considerable amount of healing just now. Although the most egregious of the bad behavior always comes from the folks whose higher self got replaced by a demon, there is little you can do to heal the remaining part of their suffering souls for as long as they are held hostage by that demon. Higher selves who chose to jump into the void simply failed at incarnation. Their souls then have to go through a very dark sequence of incarnations in order to learn all the lessons necessary for them to finally oust their demon, rekindle a higher self, and resist the lure of the void the next time round. Unless your goddess should initiate their healing herself, do not ever try to heal one those basket cases, as they will ruthlessly attack you if you extend any blessing in their cursed direction. If you get a decidedly creepy vibe from anyone, don't go there.

There are plenty of suffering people, complete with higher selves, for you to heal without any of the demon's perpetual blowback... and it can be quite perpetual! The demon-replaced are miserably, vindictively tenacious and malicious. Since clinical psychotherapy tends to frown upon any mention of demons, it came up with more palatable euphemisms like sociopath and psychopath, which tend to work pretty well too! Our world will not end up getting healed by saving rudderless souls like Anthony Fauci or Bill Gates, but rather through healing whatever cruel blockages those demons have inflicted on all of the average folks you interact with every day.

Your goddess has given you the ability to heal energy blockages in people, places, and who knows what else. Unless and until she gives you more directions, you get to choose where to focus your considerable gift. Will you heal yourself, your loved ones, your favorite places, your acquaintances, your garden, your guardian angel, your community, or entities as yet unimagined? What little corner of the divinity that surrounds us all were you sent here to heal?

— Christophe

Re: Healing unintentionally

[(Anonymous)]

(Not OP)

For the record, for my part, I object to any confident attribution of demonic higher self stand-ins to Bill Gates, or even to Anthony Fauci. Gates is kind of selfish but also strongly oriented to realistic physical patterns of cause and effect, and I know of nothing he's done that's not explained by taking a technocratic materialist position seriously. I regard that as inculpable, so long as there has been no paradigm of parapsychological research that clearly breaks the pattern of failing replication after a decade or three like all the others. Fauci has perhaps by degrees unconsciously covenanted with some kind of crazy elite-overproduction respectability-spiral egregor that has been gradually divorcing itself from physical cause and effect as a convenient form of costly virtue-signal to distinguish the priest caste from the scientist/engineer caste, but there are plenty of scenarios that result in doing that that don't involve having a demonic higher self stand-in.

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